The Milky Way at Hemlock Lake Park

To follow, my successful Milky Way mission at Hemlock Lake Park, just 40 minutes outside Rochester. Though the bright moon was at 86%, it went down around 3 a.m. The pictures I took before this presented as daytime. And though you can see its glow at the horizon still, the Milky Way’s galactic core was finally visible after the moon left. It was a welcome sight that invigorated me.