Posted on 06/26/2015 1:21:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Stars trail above and urban lights sprawl below in this moonlit nightscape from Cape Town, South Africa, planet Earth. The looming form of Table Mountain almost seems to hold terrestrial lights at bay while the stars circle the planet's South Celestial Pole. This modern perspective on the natural night sky was captured in June 2014, the scene composed of over nine hundred, stacked 30 second exposures. The stunning result was chosen as the winner in the Against the Lights category, a selection from over 800 entries in The World at Night's 2015 International Earth and Sky Photo Contest.
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[Credit and Copyright: Eric Nathan]
nice pic
Definitely would need to take a sandwich and probably some warm clothes to get an hours-long shot like that one. Makes the cosmos resemble a giant phonogram record.
7.5 hours on a near winter solstice night, looking south.
Takes dedication.
Lack of a bright star like Polaris, near the center sucks.
It’s the bottom of a giant alien ship!! oh Noes!
Isn’t that the place that has the unusual clouds over it much of the time?
It’s like a huge cloth covering the whole site, it’s been called the Table Cloth... /rimshot
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