The Oregon Star Party (OSP) gathers every year in August in the high desert of the Ochoco Mountains in Central Oregon. This year it was brutally hot during the day and bone-chilling cold at night. In other words a typical year. Kat and I attended again this year so I wanted to capture the experience and document some of the sketches I made. First here is a gorgeous sunset taken from our remote 5,000-foot elevation base camp:
Of course the pretty colors came at a heavy price as wild fires continued to burn over 200,000 acres throughout Oregon. The fires at the Warm Springs Reservation directly to the west of us had already consumed about 55,000 acres. The dark orange sunlight had to refract through all of that smoke settling in the distant valley.