Dark sky · Light painting · Deep space
Everything here was made after astronomical twilight.
A field archive in the making — galactic core season, meteor watches that run until the sky goes grey, and light drawn by hand into the dark.
In search of darker skies
The farther you get from city lights, the more the sky gives back. The first three classes on the Bortle scale are the places I hope to photograph — where the Milky Way becomes a landscape of its own.
Galactic Core
Meteors
Light Painting
Dark Sky
Deep Space
Explore a nebula in 3D
A procedural Gaussian-splat study · Artistic interpretationWebb images: NASA, ESA, CSA & STScI. Galactic Core, Meteors, Light Painting, and Dark Sky are procedural studies awaiting original photography.
02 / The observatory
The same sky.
A different way
to stand beneath it.
A photograph holds a small piece of the night. The observatory gives it room: a circle of images beneath a turning sky, with time to look in every direction.
- On a screen
- Drag to look around. Select a frame to move closer.
- Under the dome
- Explore a 360° night-sky study.
- In a headset
- Step inside with a compatible WebXR browser.
Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest where supported. A desktop and mobile view is available without a headset.
About
I drive until the sky gets dark enough, and then I stop.
- After dark
- Milky Way · Meteor showers · Star trails
- By hand
- Light drawn into a long exposure
- Far beyond
- Nebulae · Star fields · Distant galaxies
DarkSkyMobs is about the hours most people sleep through. Waiting for the moon to set. Letting your eyes adjust. Looking up long enough to notice that the sky is still moving.
The Milky Way is a reason for the drive. Meteor showers are a reason for the second thermos. Light painting fills the quiet stretches: a small light, an open shutter, a shape that only exists for the camera. And sometimes the dark sky itself is enough.
This is a personal photography project, still taking shape. For now, Webb images and night-sky studies stand in for the photographs to come. Over time, I want the archive to hold more than pictures — a little of what it feels like to be out there.