The Big Dipper on its handle swinging up over the West Mitten butte at Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah border. This is a single exposure illuminated by moonlight, of 60 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 500 with the 24mm lens and Canon 6D. I shot this April 4, 2015 on a partly cloudy night, with the nearly Full Moon rising in the east.
The Big Dipper over water and a fountain at the Inn of the Mountain Gods, near Ruidoso, New Mexico, taken on March 22, 2015. This is a two-image “panorama” to include more of the water, each shot with the 24mm lens and Canon 60Da.
A scene at the public "Parks 'n Stars" stargazing night, March 15, 2015, at the City of Rocks State Park, New Mexico, and at their Gene and Elizabeth Simons Observatory in the Orion group campground. Here, I pose with the iPad set up on a tripod running Sky Safari, for people to use to move around the sky and identify constellations. The Big Dipper is in the sky to the east.
