8 years in Southern California and I had never seen the sky as clear as I did last night from the top of Mount Laguna. Don’t confuse this statement with Eastern Sierra dark skies, this was a clear city sky. To the east you could easily see out to the Salton Sea and to the west the Milky Way was there for the taking.

However, this trip wasn’t all beauty. 50 MPH winds tested my limits so I found some coverage and shot until my digits lost all feeling.

⌁ Location: San Diego, CA
⌁ Date: June 27th, 2017
⌁ Camera: @canonusa Canon 6D
⌁ Lens: @sigmaphoto 24mm f/1.4 ART
⌁ Filter: @hoyafilterusa Intensifier
⌁ 179 Seconds
⌁ f/3.5
⌁ 24mm
⌁ ISO 1250
⌁ WB Auto
⌁ 8 tracked images for milky way, 1 long exposure photo for foreground