Images 1 and 2: The Milky Way over Stonewall Peak in the Cuyamaca Mountains, California. The reddish glow is left-over ionosphere disruption from the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket minutes previously from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Light pollution from the city of San Diego is visible on the right.
Image 3: Milky Way and Scorpio over Powell Meadow, slightly over 8100 feet elevation in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. The yellow glow at the bottom is light from Los Angeles in the distance.
Image 4: The Milky Way from Saguaro National Monument, Arizona.
Images 5 and 6: The Milky Way from my home in the Cuyamaca Mountains, California.
