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Credit & Copyright: Kristine Richer
Explanation:
The Old Astronomer's
Milky Way arcs through this peaceful northern sky.
Against faint, diffuse starlight you can follow dark
rifts of interstellar dust clouds stretching from the galaxy's core.
They lead toward
bright star Antares at the right,
almost due south above the horizon.
The brightest beacon in
the twilight
is
Jupiter, though.
From the camera's perspective it seems to hang from the
limb of a tree framing the foreground, an apple tree of course.
The serene
maritime
nightscape
was recorded in tracked and untracked
exposures on June 16 from Dover, Nova Scotia, planet Earth.
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