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Pictures from the week 10-12-11 to 10-19-11

Nov 15, 2011; 10:55 PM ET

As I mentioned yesterday, I have fallen behind on posting my bi-weekly picture summaries of each shift on the mountain. In an effort to catch up, I am going to start with pictures from mid-October.

All the pictures I have to share from that shift are shots I took on one night, October 13. I recently purchased a camera that, for the first time, gave me the ability to take some night shots under the right conditions. Fortunately, this particular night presented those necessary conditions, with a nearly full moon providing the light I needed. All the photos you will see are either 30 or 60 second exposures, and have only had basic editing done to them.

First, I will share the first shot I took that night. I didn't realize exactly how bright the moon really was, and found that a 60 second exposure looking right at the moon looked more like a daytime shot:

By bringing the exposure down to 30 seconds, I was able to capture the scene much better:

Looking in the same direction, but this time the geographical summit is in the foreground:

Looking in the opposite direction of the moon, very thin fog blowing by was creating a moon bow, something that I have only seen a couple of times in my life. It was very difficult to capture, unfortunately, and this is the best I was able to do:

Here is a shot looking toward the northwest. The glow on the horizon is created by the city of Montreal:

Looking the same direction, this panoramic shot adds in the northern Presidentials, and also the Big Dipper in the sky:

Looking back at the moon, more thin fog was now creating a corona around the moon, which also happens to be very difficult to capture:

The last couple of pictures I took that night were from the geographical summit, and they happen to be my favorites of the bunch. Here you see the geographical summit sign on the left, the Observatory tower on the right, and the glow from Montreal in the middle:

Finally, my favorite single shot. This is a very similar view to the last picture, but this time I brought the Big Dipper into the shot, just above the tower:

That's it for this particular shift. I hope to continue to catch up on my upcoming week off, so stay tuned for more pictures in the coming days!

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