Astro Photography, Lily Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park

This Meetup, an introduction to astrophotography, will be led by Jerry Stachowski; there are two parts.

The first part is photographing the Milky Way from Lilly Lake in the Rocky Mountain National Park. Jerry has prepared detailed guidance notes which will be shared with participants before the Meetup. Participants will need a sturdy tripod, a camera that can shoot at ISO 6400 (or more) with minimal noise, a cable release or remote trigger, and a wide angle lens (around F2.8 or better). We will meet at Lily Lake (off Highway 7, about 7 miles south of Estes Park) on Thursday July 24 at 6:00 pm. Jerry will help us set our cameras’ focus points to infinity and we will enjoy a picnic dinner while waiting for sunset at 8:20 pm, seeing first stars from about 9:30 pm, and then photographing the Milky Way from around 10:30 pm. It will be a late night out shooting and participants are advised to spend the night in a motel in Estes Park rather than driving home.

For the second part we will meet at 5:30 pm on Thursday August 5 in north Golden (in a commercial office facility near the intersection of Hwy 93 and Golden Gate Canyon Rd). The meeting is to review our images; there is no scoring or judging, just opportunity to provide constructive feedback to improve our images. The focus is our creativity, not technical minutia although feedback of how to improve technically to capture better images is welcomed. The building address will be provided during the photo outing.

There is no fee to join the Meetup; please ignore any funding requests.

The Meetup is limited to 8 participants.

The Meetup is whether dependent, Jerry will make a call on the Sunday evening before the Meetup.

Only RSVP “yes” if you can join both parts of the Meetup. You are welcome to contact me if you have any questions ([robertcooke@icloud.com](mailto:robertcooke@icloud.com)).