Cherry Springs State Park. PA
Cherry Springs is a nationally recognized dark sky zone, offering some of the best stargazing in the region (and probably the country!). We were lucky to camp there on an extremely clear - albeit cold - night in mid-May 2026. Some of our group are astronomers with a local college and brought telescopes. We saw Jupiter's rings, the Hercules star cluster, the Sombrero galaxy, and lots of of great naked-eye objects.
This photo is a composite photo - the sky portion is about 50 shots layered together, each with a 30-second exposure, taken on a GoPro in "NightLapse" mode. The red light parking lot was another GoPro shot taken earlier that evening at dusk. The many photographs were stitched together in Photoshop and edited for lighting/contrast, but the entities pictured are all genuine photographs - no AI or other artificial stuff.