Starry Night on Rainier

This is a merge of 9 shots at Tipsoo Lake on Mt. Rainier taken on July 27th. Ken Smith, Steve Le Penske and I took advantage of the moonless night and see how many stars we could catch. It was a beautiful, cloudless night. We left for home shortly after I captured these pano images, then Ken went back to get the shot he posted here.

Please see the larger version. Even the larger version doesn't do the Milky Way justice.

The headlamps used by the climbers were a special surprise to me. I had no idea they would show at all let alone be so bright. We watched them make quite a bit of progress up the mountain. You can clearly see the 2 main routes used.

Each image was 30 seconds at f4 and ISO 4000