{"id":508070,"date":"2026-01-11T08:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/508070\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T08:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:06:17","slug":"astrophotographer-captures-the-milky-way-at-every-level-of-light-pollution-across-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/508070\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrophotographer Captures the Milky Way at Every Level of Light Pollution Across the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Astrophotographer <a href=\"https:\/\/ianlauerastro.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">Ian Lauro Astro<\/a> traveled across the United States to photograph the <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=Milky+Way\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">Milky Way<\/a> at every level of <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=light+pollution\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">light pollution<\/a> according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bortle_scale\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">Bortle Scale<\/a>, which measures the brightness of the <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=nighttime+sky\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">nighttime sky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I photographed the Milky Way from every light pollution level, to see how it affects night sky photos. I did this using my Nikon Z5II camera and NIKKOR Z 14-24MM F\/2.8 S Lens.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He began this quest in <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=Atlanta\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">Atlanta<\/a> which has a Bortle index of 8. He then traveled to Boise, Idaho (Bortle 7) then to Auburn, Alabama and its surrounding areas (Bortle 6, 5, 4) (Bortle 5), Baker City, Oregon (Bortle 3), Eastern Oregon (Bortle 2) and the \u201cmiddle of nowhere\u201d Oregon (Bortle 1), explaining the visual difference between each number on the scale.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Astrophotographer Ian Lauro Astro traveled across the United States to photograph the Milky Way at every level of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":508071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-508070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115875439112610640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}