Tag: Star Trail

Astrophoto Bucket List

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After the eclipse on August 21st, I took a deep breath.  I spent a year focussed on photographing the eclipse, and with that goal complete, what was next?  I was in the plateau of the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, a couple dozen miles from Yellowstone, and had three days to enjoy with my fiancee.  As luck would have it, those days were absent of any clouds, giving me two perfect evenings in clear, dark, dry skies to do some of the best astrophotography of my life.  Here’s what I shot. The milky way shot for me is a...

Halloween Space Photos

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Halloween is an amazing chance for people to be someone (or something) they have always wanted to be.  To step outside of their norm and live their life as an alter ego, if only for one night.  This is why so many people have crazy Halloween stories, and why the ‘holiday’ captivates us so much.  With humanity’s excellent pattern recognition skills, we tend to see spooky things in space, where if you would just turn the picture 90 degrees, it probably would look like some other item from human experience, and not be spooky after all.  Here are a few...