27 Minutes over Park Avenue - a photo on Flickriver

In lieu of getting up early on our last day and trying to get to iconic Mesa Arch at Canyonlands - and then all the way up to Salt Lake for our flight, we elected to head back into Arches around 10:30pm for a couple hours of star photography. Oh man - was it ever worth it.

Even with some light from Moab crawling over the horizon, it was so dark, clear, and un-light polluted, that the sky was packed with stars. The Milky Way even blurred quite nicely across the top of the frame.

We all horsed around with high ISO short exposures (20-30 seconds to limit trails) and then a few longer exposures (15-30 minutes). It was so dark there that the big walls at Park Ave. just stayed black - but the stars did their thing.

What a place to spend an autumn night...

As a point of reference, here's a daytime shot I made from the same spot eight years earlier - just tilted up a wee bit.

Taken in: United States / Utah / Grand (show map)

Taken on: October 31, 2011

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