These 8 photos were done at 9PM on February 5, 2009 on the rim next to El Tovar Lodge at the Grand Canyon.
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All were shot with a Nikon D300 and Tamron 10-24 wide angle zoom.
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The D300 ISO was set at 3200. Note the "Big Dipper" just right of center. The gold bushes were lit by th path lights along the rim.
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All we shot at 30 sec at F/8, an exposure determined by experiment, manual focus.
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The number of stars shown is startling! See the plane in the upper right corner.
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No color correction was required. The Nikon figured it out itself (Auto White Balance) although moonlight is just reflected sunlight but slightly blue.
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Duplicate of the preceeding photo, with slight color correction to what daylight looks like so you can see the diference.
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The bright object just above the horizon on the left is Venus.
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The bushes were lit by sodium vapor lamps which are reddish gold.
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