Announcing the Nightscaper 2022 Conference

We’re delighted to announce that the 2022 Nightscaper Conference is happening April 26-29, 2022 in Kanab, Utah.

There is a lot of ground to cover, so please read along as we outline this exciting gathering of the best and brightest from the Nightscaper community.

Tickets are on sale as of Friday, February 4, at 9 p.m. EST. Register here.

What’s new for 2022?

The team at National Parks at Night (NPAN) is now producing this event, having acquired it from Royce Bair in January 2022. The NPAN team includes Chris Nicholson, Gabriel Biderman, Lance Keimig, Matt Hill and Tim Cooper.

Matt and Gabe attended the 2021 conference and absolutely fell in love with the community and event. Plus, Royce is looking to spend more time with family, so it was a match made in heaven.

We have of course been very aware of the Nightscaper Conference and community for quite some time, and have long admired and respected the spirit of everyone involved, from Royce and his staff to all the photographers who are so passionate about exploring dark skies. We look forward to celebrating and carrying on that spirit.

This year’s event is now 4 days instead of 3. We believe that having more time to spend in sessions and networking will give attendees an even richer experience.

Each session will be 1 hour long, to fully explore a topic.

There will be 25 speakers this year, and 20 of them will be giving two sessions each, further allowing topics to be even more fully expressed.

The five organizers from NPAN will be presenting one session each.

There will be four panel discussions to explore important topics to the community. Topic ideas are welcome and we’ll be soliciting those within the Facebook community and Instagram, so be sure to follow both.

We are adding elective image review sessions on the second, third and fourth mornings. You will be able to sign up for image reviews with participating speakers, for a reasonable fee. Further information about this will be released privately in the coming weeks to conference registrants.

Each in-person registrant will receive a custom-printed conference ringspun T-shirt with glow-in-the-dark ink! Pick this up at the conference registration booth.

This conference, as mentioned before, will be live and in-person in Kanab. The total number of in-person tickets is limited to 300 so we can all be as safe as Covid protocols can allow.

There will be limited in-person early bird tickets that are first-come, first served: 100 @ $499.

When these are gone, the remaining tickets will sell for $699 each.

For those of you who cannot travel, we are offering Replay-Only tickets to watch all sessions streaming for 1 year after the conference.

There will also be early bird Replay-Only tickets available on a first-come, first served basis: 150 @ $299.

When those sell out, Replay-Only will be available for $349.

There will not be a simulcast livestream. But each session will be recorded and posted for streaming replay for paid registrants, both in-person and for Replay-Only ticket holders.

We believe that focusing on the in-person experience and community is important, and although the technology to stream is available, it’s better to record and post it.

There will be some vital speakers who cannot travel and will be recording their presentations. We plan to simulcast those recorded sessions online so the Replay-Only ticket holders can watch something during the conference dates.

What will be the same?

The conference will provide all in-person registrants with lunch each day of the conference and dinner the first evening. All other meals are your responsibility. Fortunately, Kanab has lots of great places to eat!

We are using Sched again this year to organize the sessions and physical locations. Expect this to be released closer to the conference. It will include an iOS and Android app for up-to-date info about the conference.

Hopefully if you attended in 2021, you will be part of this again!

The focus on sharing, listening, skills, techniques, data and community will be the same also. We want to encourage everyone to gather to exchange ideas, to engage in spirited discussions and to go out shooting together.

Some speakers are returning, and some new voices will be presenting. See the lineup on the homepage.

How do you stay involved?

Please share the 2022 Nighscaper Conference with your friends, other astro-landscape photographers and those who want to jump-start their skills. We also encourage you to share it with folks who are just getting into the craft. 

• follow our Instagram, Facebook, Twitter accounts to stay up to date on all news and happenings

• join our Facebook group