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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Звездные следы над Килиманджаро http://www.variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1187386/eng |
Credit & Copyright: Dan Heller
Explanation:
The night had no moon, but
the
stars were out.
And camped at 16,000 feet on
Mt. Kilimanjaro,
photographer Dan Heller recorded
this marvelous 3 1/2 hour long exposure.
Here the landscape is lit mostly by
the stars.
Flashlights give the tents an erie internal radiance while
the greenish glow of
distant city lights filters through the clouds below.
The view from this
famous
equatorial African mountain is
toward the north, putting
Polaris,
the pole star, close to the horizon on the far left,
near the center
of the graceful concentric
star
trail arcs.
In the thin air and clear dark skies, even the ghostly
Milky Way
left a faint triangular glow as it swept across the middle of
the dreamlike scene.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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rights apply.
A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.