First night of our Labor Day Camping [extended] weekend. We got in late, around 8:30 or so and didn't get all set up until after 9:30. The campground (Danforth Bay, Freedom, NH) is pretty empty, so I made good use of the space in the field and setup shot. I could use a tad bit more lens for this kind of shot.

This is off my tripod, I no longer have any telescope gear (with tracking mounts) so Polaris about my only hope for anything decent. I tried Cassiopeia, knowing it would be horrible (photo, not the constellation) and was right, it was horrible.

The good thing about the start trails is that it helped me identify camera shake on my tripod. Even with mirror lockup, there were some slight vibrations reflected in the images.

I'd wanted to get some cool circular star trails revolving around Polaris, but my POC remote decided to crap out on me tonight. With the Bulb setting on, the remote wouldn't hold the shutter open, I wound up with a bunch of 1 second exposures.

(And, this campground has nice, free, WIFI!)

You can time-travel into tomorrow to see what I intended to shoot: