Just outside one of the eastern entrances to Death Valley National Park, near Beatty, NV is the ghost town of Rhyolite. This was a late gold rush era mining town with a short life from 1904 until about 1916. Death Valley and the surrounding areas have some of the darkest night sky in the country. I had hoped to get some images of the ghost town and stars and Milky Way on a clear night. Unfortunately as the moon was setting and the sky got darker the clouds moved in very quickly and stayed for the next four nights (along with rain). Below are the remains of the old bank building, with the constellation of Orion, the Orion nebula and Sirius in the the sky. Also an interesting pole with shoes and boots hanging from it - (a shoe tree?). Then the clouds moved in and I was done with night photos.
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