Dave McCaskill

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"Personal use..."?

Bold strategy.

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I took advantage of clear weather a couple of nights ago to photograph Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). I could have used a longer lens to highlight the comet, but I prefer to show it in context of the surrounding landscape. Cold, windy, and the windmills were spinning.

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I blame early morning with no coffee. This was probably close to 120° field of view, not 180. 🙄

WTF is Ozzy doing in that group? He was one of the good guys.

Thanks! Looking at it this morning, I tend to agree that it looks a bit stretched vertically. This was w a 20 mm lens in portrait mode, so it’s already a wide angle vertically. It’s probably close to a 180° field of view.

Oh it’s definitely not a comet. Probably just a street light from a ranger station.

Not sure how this is going to post on Bsky, but here we go.

The Milky Way really put on a show a couple of nights ago at Brown Co St Park, IN. Not bad for a Bortle 4 area.

3 image vertical pano with 8 stacked images in each spot. (click for the full image)

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Looks quite judgmental. Is the bird feeder empty?

A free bag of popcorn AND a coupon for getting vaccinated? Holy shit. What a great deal. Woohoo!

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Huge shoutout to @nateinthewild.com for his very detailed YouTube videos on shooting and post processing these things.

More details on my blog:

www.davemccaskill.art/2025/09/refl...

This is my first astro time lapse video, and it was a holy grail time lapse to boot. The 2nd night I camped at Garden of the Gods in Shawnee Nat Forest the weather was perfect. 3 hours, 1 photo every 20 sec.

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They're practicing body drops before "someone" falls from the window to their death.

I spent 3 nights camping in SE Illinois last week, looking to photograph the Milky Way. This was the first night, from a spot where I had photographed before.

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The sunset last night at Garden of the Gods in Shawnee National Forest in IL did not disappoint. You can just see the waxing crescent moon getting ready to set.

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They’re actually saying “fuck you”

Oh that’s horrible. Poor little critter. 😢

an image of the night sky showing circular star trails against a dark sky, with a lighthouse on the right side of the photo partially lighting up trees in the foreground

I recently spent 3 days camping up in Door Co. WI. Hoping to get Milky Way photos, but the weather didn't cooperate.

This is the next best thing, my first star trails photo of Eagle Bluff Lighthouse in Peninsula State Park. Already planning for my trip next year though.

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“Go up to Door Co, WI” they said.

“They have an Internationally Certified Dark Sky Park”. (that closes at 11:00pm 🙄).

Last 2 nights. Hazy, cloudy, foggy, and windy as f*.

*sigh*

When the weather doesn’t cooperate, adapt and pivot. 😎

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Northern Wisconsin isn’t too shabby. Nothin’ more to say. That’s the post.

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So Final Fridays a couple of nights ago was a bust. Storms came in and the organizers cancelled the outdoor events. *sigh*

As a consolation, here's another Milky Way shot from Garden of the Gods, IL a couple of weeks ago.

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Come see me! This Friday. 😊

Final Friday in Old Town Greenwood, IN. I'll be on the north side of Main St.

Come chat and hang out. Take a look at my photos in print. They look a lot better in print than they do on social media.

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www.restoreoldtowngreenwood.org/finalfridays

I’ve been power napping over 30 years.

Sometimes it only takes 10 min to recharge my battery, sometimes 30.

Poor kitty. I hope she’s ok.

Trips to the emergency vet are never fun, and always seem to happen in the evening.

Oh good. I was afraid he wasn’t going to do anything constructive.

Tornado sirens. They’re all over the place in IN. Tested every Friday @ 11:00am. They probably are in TX as well.

Americans have really got to unlearn the propagandist indoctrination that socialism is bad.

It means that everyone has what they need, resources are shared, and we care for the earth & those around us.

We've been taught to hate it so capitalists can keep exploiting us and working us to death.

I spent a few hours last night SW of Bloomington IN photographing the Milky Way. This was about an hour before official moonset @ 12:45 am. I wish I could say that I had planned the MW on the left side of the image, but I was just hoping to get an image of the fog rolling in. 😁

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This is awesome. 😎