Finding the Southern Cross

My first star trail recording in the southern hemisphere:

Events | Venus Jupiter Conjuction seen from NYC

Trying to find a dark spot in the bright lights of the big city; not quite successful, but this is the best I could record from the historical spectacular almost conjunction of Venus with Jupiter:

Frames of Sky from Earth | Star Trails from the summer 2008

Frames of Sky from Earth | Stair Trails

The sky observation is one of the main objectives of Sun Farm as a bio-art project. Interventions in the landscape frame the sky and the passage of time is recorded (frozen, tatooed) by the fotographic image. A few images below focusing on time during the night and stair trails ---the images are from a database started in 1998.