Park Light

Light from a mobile floodlight plays across the bottom of this image in Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa around 8:12 PM, Wednesday, October 5, 2011. The floodlight was being used to illuminate a soccer field in the direction of the right side of the picture. The bright star at lower right is the -0.07 magnitude Arcturus, in the constellation Bootes. A half-moon (toward the left) washed out a great number of fainter stars. This was a 17-second exposure at f/5, 500 ISO and an 18mm focal length.