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Jim,
Have you done any night photography before? Your assignment wins show you should pick up anything you want to do easily.
I think for the astro landscape, all the composition goals still apply. Fast lenses (14-35mm) with little coma, full frame noise tolerant cameras are much more important to keep noise down.
I was at Canyonlands/Arches recently and found the Kindle book, Photographing the Southwest second ed, Volume 1 Southern Utah, by Laurent Martres the best.
I'd find a comp you like in the daytime and simply shoot it at night. Partly cloudy skies may seem like a bummer, but I have seen many astro landscapes from others here that are amazing. There is nothing 'natural' about night sky shots, so the hardest trick when you get home is to blend everything together such that it has a 'natural' feel to it.
Seems like you found some nice links from other FMers here. I like to shoot the milky way, so I will use sky safari app to determine the direction and time of night for the best view of the milky way. Then I look at the park map for a comp that faces that direction. Try a twilight or moonrise/moonset shot for the foreground to add detail, then shoot the stars when it gets dark. With a good head lamp and daytime scouting, I'm sure delicate arch, mesa arch, deadhorse state park, balanced rock would all look cool with the stars. Light painting is hard to get right, try using a twilight or moonlight shot for the foreground as a backup.
Have fun!
David
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