Trip Report: Central PA, September 2020
This year has been a particularly bad one for me in terms of getting out and doing night time photography. It started off in March. After years of wanting to do this, I finally booked a trip to go camping in the desert, and had planned expeditions through Death Valley National Park in California and Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada, only to have pandemic-related lockdowns start on that exact weekend. Since then, every month I've scoured the weather forecasts for all the dark sky locations within a day's drive on the weekends closest to the new moon, hoping that one of them would produce a couple days that weren't rainy or overcast, and trying to stave off any social obligations for those weekends until I was sure the weather wasn't cooperating. Even for taking photos that don't require clear, moonless skies, it's been kind of difficult to get out between the fact that I have to wake up by 5:30 for work, and you know, the pandemic. But, I finally foun