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It was Friday, August 12, 2022.  It was a remarkably clear night.  
So I went to Mt. Pleasant next to the 
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartung%E2%80%93Boothroyd_Observatory">
Hartung-Boothroyd Obseratory</a> (HBO) to see about getting some pictures
of the Persieds meteor shower.  It wasn't buggy since he haven't had
much rain this summer.  The only problem was the full moon was the 
previous night.  So it was, pretty much, still full and really zapped
out most of the star viewing.  And it got <i>brighter</i> out as the
moon got higher.
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We saw a few shooting stars and maybe two were more than just brief,
tiny motion.  One was an arcing one with a trail of sparkles that looked
like the Disney logo.  It lasted one second at the most.  I imagine by
that point the Disney lawyers had served it a cease and desist notice.
But I took a few pictures and the stars that were visible looked nice
and it was easy spot the easy-to-spot constellations.
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Here are 16 photo highlights, <i>plus</i> one that Dianne took of me
while I was looking for a meteor to photograph.
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Frank ready to take a picture of a meteor.</figcaption>
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DSC_5661: Shadows from the moon of me, Rob, and Dianne on the HBO wall.
I'm being followed by a moon shadow.  Moon shadow?  Yeah, uh huh, moon shadow.
DSC_5662: The moon rose about an hour after sunset.  Here's it behind <i>the tree</i> (one of the few tall objects close by other than the HBO.
DSC_5663: A 10 second exposure.  It was quite dark out.  Rob's head is 
transparent because he was no thtere for the full 10 seconds.
DSC_5666: Stars!  Kind of 1960's era <i>Star Trek</i> quality.
DSC_5671: Rob setting up his camera and tripod for a shot.  Can you spot
the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia, and thus the North Star?
DSC_5674: The HBO with the Big Dipper right over it.
DSC_5675: The almost full moon rising behind the tree.  To the left on the 
horizon is Jupiter.  Saturn is just above the tree.
DSC_5678: Jupiter!  Look at it at full resolution.  I don't know if those
are 2 of the moons.
DSC_5680: Saturn is the central bright tilted oval blob.  That <i>might</i>
be the rings or might just be a limit of the lens. 
DSC_5684: What do <i>you</i> see?  A tree with the full moon in it?  The
profile of a moon dog with a bright eye?  I did <i>light painting</i> with 
my flashlight around the moon while the shutter was open.  I figured if it
annoyed the people on the moon it was payback for ruining my chance to get
good meteor pictures this time.  Yeah, I am a little petty like that.
DSC_5686: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's super-...no...no wait, it actually
is just a plane with periodic flashes of its red anticollision beacon.
DSC_5687: A commerical plane, likely level at 3300 feet MSL lined up for
the glide slope intercept on the ILS 32 approach to Ithaca.  But I imagine
they were flying it visually since it was so clear.
DSC_5692: More stars!!  Though it is a bit noisy.
DSC_5698: The Big Dipper, North Star, and Cassiopeia.  Also, I don't know 
what that streak between the wires is.  Maybe it <i>is</i> a meteor?
DSC_5699: Another picture taken 1.5 minutes after the previous one.  The
dots in the middle of the left edge is a plane.  The streak below the wires
and the one about 1/4 of the way up from the bottom on the right side aren't
in the previous picture.  They may be meteors!
DSC_5700: A shot of the moon rising above the the tree, with Rob's head
below it.  I knew he was there but didn't see his head since it actually 
was somewhat dark then.