I don’t want to talk about building a website today. I got so sidetracked with updates to the site yesterday that I never did get to plugins and widgets. My mind is on overload again, so I would prefer something that makes me smile. Photographing the night sky in all it’s glory. The Milky Way is leaving us for the year. She won’t be back until spring. Well, that’s sort of true but not completely. The Milky Way is there all year long, but the core goes beneath the horizon before the sun sets so it is not visible this time of year. It took me a long time to understand that. You see, the Milky Way is much like the sun and the moon except it does not lie within our solar system, we lie within it. We are on the outer edge looking inward. But much like the moon, there are times when it is above the horizon during the day. We can see the moon when it’s up during the day but we cannot see the Milky Way. It’s there all right, but the sun washes it out and blinds us to it. This cycle does not take 4 weeks like the moon does, It cycles month to month so that it is up during the day in the winter. That leaves us with the rest of the night sky which also cycles. During the summer, the southern skies are filled with stars, gathered in a long ribbon that stretches north to south and moves through the sky east to west. That’s the Milky Way. In the winter, the northern skies are filled with stars and there are fewer stars to the south. I find this fascinating. I am off in November to some of the darkest skies in the U.S. I plan to shoot north and create star trails. As soon as i figure out how to make a page with my images, I’ll show you what that looks like. In the mean time, just keep swimming. Whatever your journey is, know that with time you can reach your goal. Thanks for visiting.
Photography and other art forms