On May 4th from last year, we had a scheduled power outage that went from 12am to 8am. That night, I woke up hearing my dad failing to start the generator in the garage just to get our electric fans and chargers work again in our bedroom.
Me and my parents decided to walk to our terrace with my tripod in upstairs, checking to see if the sky is clear so I can do astrophoto stuff that time, while my dad sleeps there for a cool, fresh air. To my surprise, there were no lights around our street so some of the stars and satellites we haven't seen before are now visible than usual (except we had a bright solar light that lighted our terrace's door, aswell as the moon being visible in its Waning Crescent phase but they don't affect my astrophotography by much). Also, bortle scale here was around 2-3 scale that night (normally it is around 5 with power on).
And then me and my mom noticed this dark grey-ish cloud in the sky above our heads, next to the moving clouds being in the way. It was really barely visible to our eyes. I thought I saw a Milky Way for the first time... but it actually is after I opened the Stellarium app on my phone and pointed at it!
Got me excited. So I mounted my phone to my tripod and took several pics of the galactic core before we went back to sleep at 5am, waiting for the electricity to be back. I was amazed by my wonderful photos of it from my phone after checking them :D
I only picked the first and the last on this post because they are the best. For now, these are also my last Milky Way pics I have only seen clearly like that from it.
#ThrowbackThursday
(Sorry if it looks like my younger self writing this story lol. English isn't my native language though.)
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