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Perseid Meteor Shower 2021

The summer of 2021 will be remembered for drought, fires, and smoke, and definitely not for great night sky viewing.…

3 years ago

Dark Sky Designation Program Passes in Nevada

More good news... Nevada's "Dark Sky Designation" bill SB52 was signed today! It will encourage recognition and preservation of Nevada's…

4 years ago

A New, Surprise Threat to Mono County Night Skies and Economy?

Last year I became a reluctant observer of challenges to the Mono Basin's dark skies from commercial development. This February 2021…

4 years ago

Favorite Images Captured in 2020

The year started our innocuously enough, with a quick trip to Death Valley (below) to enjoy water on the Badwater…

4 years ago

Minimizing Smoke For Night and Landscape Photography

Late August and early September can be particularly risky times for landscape photography, as vegetation dries out and increases the…

4 years ago

Bodie – Nevada Ghost Town Night Photography Workshop

It was a busy schedule with Yosemite for practice, then Bodie and multiple mining areas in Nevada to explore, but…

4 years ago

Comet NEOWISE Photos July 2020

Comet NEOWISE was discovered on March 27, 2020. By early July it was visible to the naked eye to the…

4 years ago

Stacking Starry Night Landscapes With Sequator

For quite some time astrophotographers have used a program called Deep Sky Stacker to align and combine multiple starry images…

5 years ago

Light Pollution By Mono Lake On Track To Increase

Light pollution is increasingly confirmed as negatively affecting human health, the health of various animal, insect and plant species, and…

5 years ago

Will Low Earth Orbit Satellites Take Over the Night Sky?

In March 2020 I was out a couple of nights doing my normal thing shooting night photography and time-lapse sequences.…

5 years ago

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