Globe@night
Mar27
We participated in the Globe at Night starcount on the evening of Saturday March 26th, 2011
It was a clear cold night with some wind and that made it challenging to stay outside during the Earth Hour event as well (more on that later).
We were mostly dark adapted to the darkness and visually observed the constellation Leo to see how many stars were visible. I saw the equivalent of Magnitude 4 skies, which would be maybe 1 magnitude less than others as my night vision is not that good.
Here are two images of Leo taken just after we did our visual observing, one at 15 seconds, one at 64 seconds with our Canon Powershot A540 on a tripod.
15 seconds f2.6
64 seconds f2.6