Star trails over Salar de Uyuni
Traveling around the huge salt flats of Salar de Uyuni is no easy task, as the distances are vast and you have to bring…
Star trails over the Siloli desert
This is just a few kilometres from the Chilean border and here the sleeping and lodging options are almost…
Siloli desert stars
Being a desert the air is dry, and here you can see starsets! Usually only the sun or moon and the planets shine…
Nevado Sajama
Bolivias highest mountain - 6542 metres high - facing south. What a magnificent moment - the Large Magellanic cloud…
Star trails over Nevado Sajama
This was my first night at this altitude, and I was really struggling. The landscape and sky was incredibly beautiful,…
Halo (22° Circular Halo)
Altitude 3083 metres. See Atmospheric Optics for more on halo and how it forms. -0.361389,-78.149167
Draconid meteors and Northern lights (Aurora borealis)
The Draconid meteors are generally faint, so with a near full moon the amount seen this night were few and far between.…
Northern lights (Aurora borealis)
Finally some intense auroas AND clear skies! It seemed at first to be only a dim band high in the northern sky, but at…
Roraima rainbow
There are countless waterfalls on and off Roraima, large and small. If the sun is out and the angle is right, a rainbow…
The northern lights continued
Since the first shots at around 20:40, the clouds moved in and the northern lights slowly withdrew to the north, as if…