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Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek
Explanation:
You wake up in the
Kalahari Desert in
Botswana,
Africa.
You go outside your tent, set up your camera, and take
long exposures of the land and sky.
What might you see?
Besides a lot of blowing dust and the occasional
acacia tree,
you might catch many sky wonders.
Pictured
in 2015 September, sky highlights include the
central band of our
Milky Way Galaxy,
the Pleiades Star Cluster,
Barnard's Loop, and both the
Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, to name just a few.
Although most of these faded in the morning light, they were quickly replaced by
a
partial
eclipse of the
Sun.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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See also:
- APOD: 2024 September 11 Á A Night Sky over the Tatra Mountains
- APOD: 2023 August 15 Á A Triply Glowing Night Sky over Iceland
- Sunset to Sunrise over the Baltic Sea
- An Artful Sky over Lofoten Islands
- A Furious Sky over Mount Shasta
- Sea and Sky Glows over the Oregon Coast
- Stars and Planets over Portugal