Frank Turina is an astrophotographer based in Evergreen, Colorado.

I spent 10 years working for the National Park Service Night Skies Program, helping to provide park visitors with opportunities to experience the vastness and beauty of the celestial realm. I also helped protect wildlife and other natural and cultural resources from the effects of light pollution.

I started my journey in astrophotography in 2019 to help me understand how light pollution affects astronomers and others interested in enjoying the night skies and naturally dark places. I began taking images in Fort Collins, Colorado located on the northern edge of the light dome that covers the front range of Colorado, from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs. The light from many of the deep space objects in the night skies has traveled for thousands or millions of years before reaching Earth and being captured by my camera in a small city in northern Colorado. As a result, even the brightest galaxies and nebulae are extremely dim and are easily washed out by even a small amount of artificial light in the atmosphere. To compensate, astrophotographers often take hours of exposures to capture detail in an object, and utilize an array of light pollution filters and Photoshop techniques to bring out the beauty of the objects being photographed.