The last new moon I went out to capture some images of the Milky Way over our local scenes. I had three images planned but that didn’t happen. The fist was an image of the Milky Way rising over the dunes on the beach unfortunately the Milky Way core didn’t rise high enough to clear the dunes. The second was a panoramic showing the whole Milky Way arch however ambient light from the villages washed out the Northern end of the arch. The third was at Montauk Lighthouse it just happened to be when the smoke form the Canadian fires reached our area and the lights from the lighthouse were so defused an acceptable image wasn’t captured. Forced to pivot I made three other images of good Milky Way images.

A series of black and white photos of clouds over the bays of Eastern Long Island.

Even though my schedule and clear nights weren’t aligning too well. I was able to get out to create three new astro landscapes.

An early photo of the mike way using a star tracker

Several views of the Ponquogue Bridge starting with the boat ramp in the fog and ending with a view across western Shinnecock Bay

Night Clouds over Munn Point Southampton. The lights on the horizon are from Hampton Bays shows a good example of the light pollution even on the east end.

I couldn’t decide which I likes more the color or black and white version of these storm waves at the Montauk Lighthouse