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Credit & Copyright: Maxime Oudoux,
Jean-Francois GELY
Explanation:
With this creative astro-collaboration you can follow the plane of
our Milky Way Galaxy as it bridges northern and southern
hemisphere skies.
To construct the expansive composite nightscape,
skies over Observatorio El Sauce in Chile (top)
were imaged on the same date but 6 hours later than
the skies over the Saint-Veran observatory in the French Alps.
The 6 hour time-lag allowed Earth's rotation to align
the Milky Way above
domes at the two sites.
All exposures were made with similar cameras and lenses mounted on simple
tripods.
A faint greenish airglow is visible in the
dark Chilean sky that also features the Large
and Small Magellanic Clouds near the observatory dome.
In the French Alps light pollution is apparent,
but the distant Andromeda Galaxy can still be spotted near the horizon
in the northern night.
On
planet Earth
the two observatories are separated by about 10,000 kilometers.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Milky Way
Publications with words: Milky Way
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