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Credit & Copyright: Anton Komlev
Explanation:
It started with a pine tree.
The idea was to photograph a statuesque
pine
in front of the central band of our
Milky Way Galaxy.
And the plan, carried out two months ago, was successful --
they both appear prominently.
But the resulting 3-frame panorama captured much more.
Colorful stars,
for example, dot the distant background, with bright
Altair visible on the upper left.
The planet Saturn, a bit closer, was captured just over
the horizon on the far left.
Just beyond the
Earth's atmosphere, seen in the upper right, an
Earth-orbiting satellite
was caught leaving a streak during the 25-second exposure.
The Earth's
atmosphere itself was
surprisingly visible -- as
green airglow
across the image top.
Finally, just by chance, there was a
firefly.
Do you see it?
Near the image bottom,
the firefly blinked in yellow several times as it
fluttered before the rolling hills above
Milogradovka River in
Primorsky Krai,
Russia.
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See also:
- APOD: 2024 November 24 Á Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
- APOD: 2024 November 5 Á Milky Way over Easter Island
- APOD: 2024 August 4 Á Gaia: Here Comes the Sun
- APOD: 2024 July 29 Á Milky Way over Uluru
- APOD: 2024 May 29 Á Stairway to the Milky Way
- APOD: 2023 December 12 Á Aurora and Milky Way over Norway
- Milky Way Rising