I'm Miguel — a landscape astrophotographer who loves spending time under dark skies, and the developer behind DarkHours, a free, open-source app for planning astrophotography trips around moon phase, weather, and light pollution.

My job provides me access to air travel, which means I'm able to go to clear, dark skies almost anywhere — usually the American Southwest, or wherever the forecast points. I built DarkHours because juggling separate apps for moon, weather, and light pollution every time I planned a shoot wasn't working, and figured other photographers were doing the same thing.

Mostly, this blog is a lot of photos — the shots I actually came home with from each trip, alongside the trip reports and field notes behind them. I'll also post the occasional update on what goes into building DarkHours itself.

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