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Credit & Copyright: Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn
(Weather and Sky
Photography)
Explanation:
Sometimes, after your eyes adapt to the dark, a spectacular sky appears.
Such was the case earlier this month over
Ontario,
Canada,
when part of a spectacular sky also became visible in a reflection off a lake.
To start, the brightest objects visible
are bright stars and the
planet Jupiter, seen as the brightest spot on the upper
left.
A distant town appears as a diffuse glow over the horizon.
More faint still, the disk of the
Milky Way Galaxy
becomes apparent as a dramatic diffuse
band
across the sky that seems to crash into the horizon far in the distance.
In the foreground, a picturesque landscape includes
trees, a lake, and a
stone wall.
Finally, on this serene night in July when the lake water was unusually clam,
reflections appear.
Visible in the lake are not only reflections of several bright stars, but part of
the
Milky Way band itself.
Careful inspection of the
image will reveal, however, that bright stars leave small trails in the lake
reflections that do not appear in the
sky above.
The reason for this is because the above image is actually a
digital composite of time-consecutive
exposures from the same camera.
In the first set of exposures, sky images were co-added with slight
rotations to keep the stars in one place.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Milky Way
Publications with words: Milky Way
See also:
- APOD: 2023 December 12 Á Aurora and Milky Way over Norway
- Milky Way Rising
- APOD: 2023 July 18 Á Milky Way above La Palma Observatory
- APOD: 2023 July 16 Á Meteor and Milky Way over the Alps
- APOD: 2023 July 2 Á Milky Way and Aurora over Antarctica
- APOD: 2023 June 20 Á The Nandu in the Milky Way
- APOD: 2023 May 29 Á Milky Way over a Turquoise Wonderland