When visiting the Gaucho Festival in Tacuarembo we stayed in Valle Eden, which is just west of the city itself. It was a pretty area. We rented a room, which seemed like the migrant sheep shearer’s quarters and was insanely over priced. Friends that went up with rented camping spots. They were dirt cheap and their tents were probably larger. We ended up leaving a day early because of it. We might go up again this year, but we’d definitely camp.

More photos from Valle Eden and the Gaucho Festival in my Gaucho Festival in Tacuarembo Flickr Set.

For a city of millions, Montevideo has a surprisingly dark night sky. For the most part, I have only shot the moon from Montevideo. However, the surrounds offer some neat foregrounds (see the pictures below) sometimes.

More pictures in my Montevideo Flickr Set or my Astronomy Flickr Set.

Woke up late last night needing a drink. I looked out the kitchen window while drinking and noticed the moon and Jupiter (though I couldn’t tell if it was Jupiter or Mars at the time). They were close enough together to get in a single shot and I was waiting for an excuse to use my new Sigma 120mm – 400mm lens. So out came the camera and tripod. A close look at the original sized Jupiter pictures and you can almost make out a couple of the larger bands. The moon shots are the better of the two, of course.

Some more pictures in my Astronomy Flickr Set.