This Mesocycone was Veiling the full Moon enough to catch the stars visible to my naked eye but seldom to a camera pointing at the full moon. Most you see are fakes or composites. This 6 second time exposure would have been overexposed badly with a full moon that was unveiled. This is the real deal seeing stars with a full moon.
Straddling South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana, this storm was 100 miles across. I photographed it in the deep backcountry for almost 2 hours with 6 different camera lens combinations from before sunset to well into Astronomic twilight under the full moon. Being backcountry means any light on the terrain is ambient from the flash and the moon/stars.
THe colors are way saturated which is what time exposures do. I actually really dampened down the purples in this image.
This ranks as one of my personal favorite images of the year. There are a few others….🤔
Location: Bliss DInosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands.
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