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Credit & Copyright: Robert Q. Fugate
Explanation:
Seeing mountain peaks glow red from
inside the Grand Canyon was one of the
most incredible sunset experiences of this amateur photographer's life.
They appeared even more incredible later, when digitally combined with an
exposure of the night sky --
taken by the same camera and from the same location -- an hour later.
The two images were taken last August from the 220 Mile Canyon campsite on the
Colorado River,
Colorado,
USA.
The peaks glow red because they were lit by an
usually red sunset.
Later, high above, the band of the
Milky Way Galaxy angled dramatically down,
filled with stars, nebula, and dark clouds of dust.
To the Milky Way's left is the planet
Saturn, while to the right is the brighter
Jupiter.
Although
Jupiter and
Saturn are now hard to see,
Venus will be
visible and quite bright to the west in clear skies,
just after sunset, for the next two months.
Astrophotography with Your Computer:
NASA's Astrophoto Challenges
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NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: night sky
Publications with words: night sky
See also:
- APOD: 2025 July 1 Á Eye Sky a Dragon
- APOD: 2025 April 23 Á An Almost Everything Sky
- 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