A few words about the photographer.

I'm Cole Rees, an astrophotographer based on a remote site in southern Arizona, where the Milky Way casts a real shadow on a moonless night. My background is in Audio Engineering and high-level amateur astronomy. I split my time between long exposures of distant objects, making videos and guides that help other astrophotographers do better work, and slowly building out a small dark-sky homestead in the desert.

This site shares a name with my YouTube show on the Cole Rees channel: The Warm Room. The phrase refers to the small heated outpost astrophotographers retreat to while their rigs run outside on freezing nights, where you sit with coffee and a laptop while the universe accumulates, frame by frame, just beyond the window. The Warm Room is where the best late-night astronomy conversations happen. This site and my show both pay homage to that special place.

My photographs are made the long way: multiple nights of integration, careful calibration, and processing that respects the data over the spectacle. I tend toward galaxies and faint nebulosity, the kind of targets that reward patience. Every image is captured from my own site or from collaborative remote installations.

If you're here to look at pictures, the gallery is the place. To see what makes them, the kit is laid out in detail. If you'd like to see the sky for yourself, I host private star parties for couples, families, and small groups. And if you just want to say hello, the contact form is open.