Merry Christmas 2024 & Happy New Year 2025 from Beers Astrophotography!
We hope that you have a fabulous year and are prepping for an even more spectacular 2025!
Our year went by way too fast – filled with flying, astrophotography, beekeeping, a prolific grape harvest, and fun friend times.
My astrophotography year was incredible – the highlights, at least those that I could fit reasonably on it, are shown in the Christmas card collage. Early March was my first (to be annual) trip to the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile, to capture the Southern Hemisphere skies. It was fabulous! Danita, all my gear, and I traveled without issue. The Southern Cross, set-up behind our Atacama Lodge, had six spectacularly clear nights! The images on the right side of the collage are from that trip: Fighting Dragons, Running Chicken, Blue Horsehead, Carina, and the Milky Way.
Early April had us eclipse chasing with Jan & Dave to San Angelo, Texas, capturing the spectacle from San Saba, Texas. We had clear skies until a few minutes before totality when a big cloud rolled through (the background of the eclipse collage is a wide-angle image of the sky), adding “interest” to the images.
Finally, two successful dark skies trips in the Beast. First over the 4th of July weekend to Powderhorn (left side: Lagoon, Gecko, Trifid, Eagle); then in October to Comanche National Grasslands’ Camel Rock (center: Jellyfish, Pleiades, and Elephant Trunk).