The ruins of the 1908 Cook Bank Building, in the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada.

Astounding coastal visibility on the usually fogged-blanketed Lost Coast.

The Milky Way makes a brief appearance as the campfire stirs.

The Milky Way from the Coastal Range above Big Sur, California.

Like many of Yosemite's mystical sights, the Moonbow of Yosemite Falls makes its appearance just once a year when the falls flow with the summer snowmelt and a full moon at just the right angle to refract a rainbow across the mist.

Stars out above the Watchman and the Virgin River in Zion National Park.

Just before moonset from the Johnston Ridge Observatory

Camping out under the stars in the Crowley Lake Basin