Shasta Lake 2023
The sky from Shasta Lake, CA in June 2023, on a houseboat trip hosted by Frank and Brian. Three Raspberry Pi HQ Cameras, various lenses.
Night of June 20
The 6mm lens gives a good swath of sky in this timelapse movie of the whole night. Watch the Milky Way appear about 1am. Airplanes and satellites zip across the frame in these 60-second exposures, framed at bottom by trees along the shore.
Same lens. This star-trails image sums the whole night in one image.
An animated view of the star-trails, showing how they're built up.
Night of June 21
A different camera location the next night gives a slightly different view in this timelapse.
Star-trails, 6mm lens.
Animated star-trails, 6mm.
Here's the fisheye lens. The lake was full and the shore is very steep, so the boat and the cameras on the bank are looking up through a narrow window in the trees. Check out the starlight on the water at image-bottom in this timelapse.
Just after midnight an airplane adds its light to the Milky Way’s reflection in the lake, bottom center.
Star-trails, fisheye lens.
Animated star-trails, fisheye.
Night of June 22
Occasional ghostly clouds obscure the Milky Way in this timelapse.
Star-trails, 6mm lens.
Animated star-trails, 6mm.
The fisheye lens captures the houseboat in upper left. Another narrow window in the trees. Starlight on the water.
Star-trails, fisheye lens.
Animated star-trails, fisheye.