![]() ![]() It’s just adjacent to the Port of Long Beach, a major light pollution source and there are still a plethora of street lamps scattered all over the Palos Verdes neighborhoods. In Palos Verdes, there’s a park called Del Cerro Park that’s propped on the top of a high cliff wall, looking out toward Catalina Island. My girlfriend and I recently drove a short distance from Venice, California to Rancho Palos Verdes. If you didn’t know what you were looking for, you wouldn’t know that you were seeing the center of our galaxy. The Milky Way was just barely visible against a hazy sky, lit profusely by the orange-yellow glow of the sodium vapor street lamps of the city. The photo of the park bench here, believe it or not, was taken very near Los Angeles. Every past photograph of the Milky Way that I have taken was made far away from the LA city lights, in distant places like Death Valley National Park and Joshua Tree National Park, hundred of miles away from the city lights of LA.Įven so, I made it a mission to try and find a nearby place that I could go to observe and photograph the milky way. If there is a place that’s well known for its clear, dark starry skies, LA isn’t it, not by a long shot. Light pollution is growing at an alarming rate and someday, if this trend continues, it will be impossible to see our own galaxy from the surface of the Earth. Someday, images of the Milky Way may be only historical photos of yesteryear, a once-was-a-possibility of the distant past. It’s there, visible to all in a dark enough sky, it’s long spiral arms stretching across the sky, pink nebula dotted against dark dust clouds and it’s bright dense center housing a massive black hole. It is the cradle of our star, the Sun, and our planet, the Earth and everything on it. This guide talks about a method called ETTR or “Exposure To The Right” that I have used successfully to actually be able to photograph the Milky Way in these terrible conditions.īut why should you care about seeing the Milky Way?īecause the Milky Way is the very place that we were all born. The rest of the galaxy is hidden by an orange haze of light pollution. When I look up at the sky from Venice, California, I can see about 20 stars. Most of the population in the United States cannot see the Milky Way. Light pollution is a rapidly growing problem. A method for improving Milky Way exposures in light pollution ![]()
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