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I spent three incredible nights, August 10-13, 2015 at the Berlin–Ichthyosaur State Park In central Nevada. The campground area sits at close to 7,000' (2,100 m) so even in the heat of August, the evenings were very cool. I generally had to break out the jacket around midnight. Quite a relief from the Las Vegas temps in August. I had three DSLR's running pretty much all night from around 10pm till 5am every night so I had a ton of data to deal with. This image was taken in front of the main building of the ghost town and is a composite of about 10x 20 second exposures with a little light-painting on one of the exposures.
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Cool pic!
Thanks for posting.
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Awesome picture, with the Perseus double, M31, and M33 clearly visible. You really were out in the middle of nowhere!

Nicely done,
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JayTee wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 10:47 pm Awesome picture, with the Perseus double, M31, and M33 clearly visible. You really were out in the middle of nowhere!

Nicely done,
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Congratulations on having your image selected as todays TSS APOD!!

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Wow! Amazing colours in the meteor trails and such a nice composition and all.

It's splendid!
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Beautiful shot and the building really adds some scale to the photo. Excellent capture of colors, as well. Congrats on winning today's APOD AstroBee.
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Hello AstroBee. This is a superb shot of the Perseids meteor show from 2015. Well centered on the radiant and great meteor color. Thanks for putting this up on here for us to enjoy AstroBee, and congratulations on winning the TSS APOD Award today.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you all. Once again, I appreciate the recognition. I'll keep posting as long as I'm not working...
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Now this is cool. A lot happening in this nightscape.
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