F-stop: f/1.8
Exposure time: 8 seconds
ISO: 1600
Auto white balance
with Nikon D7000 body and Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX Lens
The field of stars here is another image from my professors' 80 acres in Manistee, MI. This was taken from my campsite. After taking some photographs at the lake I headed back to gaze in my chair before bed, away from the droves of mosquitoes.
Earlier in the summer in Mackinaw City at a Dark Sky event, I was shown where to find the Andromeda Galaxy, M31. I dutifully returned to find it in this pristine bit of dark sky. Not only was I rewarded with a sighting of Andromeda (bright smudge high and left of center), but I discovered later at my computer that I had also captured the Triangulum Galaxy, M33, by accident (dim smudge center, near bottom). See if you can find it.
This image uses the same settings as my Lake Olga Milky Way photograph. You can see some stars beginning to trail in the corners, upper left in particular. Some of the brighter stars in the center make up the constellation of Andromeda. One can use these as signposts to find the location of the galaxies.
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