June 13 – Night Sky – The Milky Way in our Backyard

In the Southern Hemisphere you can see the galactic core of the Milky Way. It can be pretty dark here and we figure that taking great night sky pictures should be pretty easy here. Matt signed us up with the local Astronomical club to learn more about astrophotography. But just for fun, we decided to go into the backyard and see what we might shoot. I took the picture above with my iPhone. I was not even using a tripod. It is a little blurry. but there is the Southern Cross and the faint Milky Way. If we can see that much of the Milky Way in the backyard, going to a dark sky park is going to be awesome.