dust and starlight
San Rafael Swell, Utah
Lightning under the Milky Way
A meteor, a lightning flash in a distant storm and the glow of a geomagnetic storm, each caught at a different moment of one night's timelapse under the Milky Way at Temple Mountain and blended into one frame, August 2024.
Sony a7 III · Sony FE 20mm f/1.8 G · 20mm · f/2 · 15s · ISO 3200
The sky that night
Night of August 10–11, 2024 · 12:35 am by the camera's clock
- Moon
- Waxing crescent, 37% lit · 6.8 days old
- Milky Way
- Peak core season. The galactic core is up for a good part of the night.
Worked out from the capture time, not the place: the moon’s phase is the same everywhere on Earth at a given moment.
See it in a room
To scale above an 84-inch sofa.
Prints
Which medium, which sizePrint sales open soon. The sizes below are the ones this frame holds at full detail. Want one now, or want to hear the day the store opens? Write to us.
Fine art paper print
Museum-grade archival pigment inks on premium fine art paper. The quiet option — for a frame you already own, or a framer you trust. Ships flat up to 16 × 24 and rolled in a tube above that.
- 8″ × 12″
- 12″ × 18″
- 16″ × 24″
- 20″ × 30″
- 24″ × 36″
ChromaLuxe metal · ready to hang
Dyes infused directly into a coated aluminum panel. The most luminous version of a night sky we sell — scratch-, fade-, and water-resistant, with a float mount that holds the panel three-quarters of an inch off the wall. White glossy by default; semi-gloss or matte on request.
- 16″ × 24″
- 20″ × 30″
- 24″ × 36″
- 30″ × 45″
TruLife acrylic · ready to hang
The print is face-mounted beneath optical-grade, anti-glare TruLife acrylic. Details seem to sit inside the glass; light falling across the face makes the piece look lit from within. Our statement piece, and the one to choose for the wall that gets the light. Float-mounted, ready to hang.
- 16″ × 24″
- 20″ × 30″
- 24″ × 36″
- 30″ × 45″
Framed acrylic, linen liner · ready to hang
The TruLife acrylic piece finished in a handcrafted hardwood frame with a linen liner — Tabacchino scoop in dark ash or black by default; the other profiles are on the Framing page. A 4-inch frame with a 2-inch liner adds about 12 inches to each dimension of the print.
- 16″ × 24″
- 20″ × 30″
- 24″ × 36″
- 30″ × 45″
- Every order is checked by us — crop, file, and size — before it goes to the lab.
- Arrives damaged? We replace it. No forms.
- Not sure it fits the wall? Send us a photo of the room and we'll mock it up at true size, free.
- Want a size or medium that isn't listed, or a license for this image? Ask us.
