{"id":186,"date":"2013-06-24T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.landscapeastrophotography.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2013-07-31T22:03:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T06:03:28","slug":"milky-way-over-the-watchman-at-night-zion-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.landscapeastrophotography.com\/blog\/milky-way-over-the-watchman-at-night-zion-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Milky Way over the Watchman at Night, Zion National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Watchman is one of the iconic landmarks in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/zion_national_park_photos.html\">Zion National Park<\/a>, such that throngs of photographers line the bridge each fall at sunset to photograph the Watchman with the Virgin River and autumn trees in front of it.  We elected for a much different image, one with the Milky Way soaring over the Watchman at night.  We imaged the peak from a variety of locations, moving as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/milky_way_photos.html\">Milky Way<\/a> crossed through the sky in order to keep the composition balanced.  In this case I elected for a time exposure too long to freeze the stars but shorter than a typical star trail, and was pleased with the result.  The Milky Way is still recognizable while the streaking stars add some movement to the image.  I used the same technique on another composition several hundred miles away, which I will post in the coming days.  Cheers, and thanks for looking!  (See also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landscapeastrophotography.com\/milky-way-and-stars-over-the-virgin-river-and-the-watchman-zion-national-park-utah\/\" title=\"Photo of the Milky Way over the Virgin River and Watchman\">photo of the Milky Way over the Virgin River and the Watchman<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_190\" style=\"width: 954px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.landscapeastrophotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/28587.jpg\" alt=\"Milky Way over the Watchman, Zion National Park. The Milky Way galaxy rises in the night sky above the the Watchman.\" width=\"944\" height=\"1039\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milky Way over the Watchman, Zion National Park.  The Milky Way galaxy rises in the night sky above the the Watchman.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watchman is one of the iconic landmarks in Zion National Park, such that throngs of photographers line the bridge each fall at sunset to photograph the Watchman with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,34],"tags":[12,13,16,36,30,35],"class_list":{"0":"post-186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-astrophotography-landscape-blog","7":"category-milky-way-photos","8":"tag-astrophotography-2","9":"tag-landscape-astrophotography","10":"tag-milky-way","11":"tag-star-trails","12":"tag-utah","13":"tag-zion-national-park"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeastrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeastrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeastrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeastrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeastrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeastrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeastrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeastrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeastrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeastrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}