Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Three Arches Above Utah

NASA ^ | May 24, 2011 | (see photo credit)

[SunkenCiv]

It's not about McDonalds.

[SunkenCiv]

I'm glad APoD's in my time zone, I'm able to take care of the 24th now. I plan to take it easy tomorrow, weaning myself off the www for the summer. Heard that one before, haven't we?

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[GeronL]

nice

[SunkenCiv]

the smaller one has a kind of 3-D quality, so I thought a larger size would be nice on the drive.

check it out, doesn’t that “rock” foreground look fake?

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1105/doublearch_goldpaint_3899.jpg

[GeronL]

I clicked and I clicked and that image is

HHHHUUUUGGGEEEE!!!!!

[GeronL]

Styrofoam set from the original Star Trek?? /s

[dr_lew]

Probably a short time exposure for the stars, and then a flash exposure of the arch, with the same camera setting.

[RC one]

I remember camping out in the canyonlands and just being awed by the stars. It was incredible Same with the Mojave desert. If I could get rid of my house without losing a small fortune, I’d sell everything and move out there without hesitation. Utah was just incredible. I’m sure I’ll end up living there some day.

[UCANSEE2]

And to think, that 300 million years ago, when that was the bottom of a sea, the stars were actually where we see them today.

[dr_lew]

Here's a clip from the photo matched with my Starry Night view from a Utah location ( Salt Lake City - close enough for this purpose )

The "red" star is Antares in Scorpio. The red lines in the star chart are hour lines and latitude lines. The hour lines are 30 minutes apart here, so you can see the exposure was maybe a minute or tow long to produce the trails that we see. ( I can get a better estimate by blowing up the scale. )

[mikrofon]

Slightly differenbt view:

[left that other site]

Gorgeous!

[martin_fierro]

Two arches above California.

[aruanan]

Because we are situated in the midst of the spiral Milky Way Galaxy, the band of the central disk appears all around us.

More than a little imprecise.

[TheOldLady]

Yeah, aren’t we out in some backwater spiral arm?

[geege]

Orion Arm

[TheOldLady]

Thanks!

[geege]

Welcome....Pretty interesting how many differnt “arms” are in our galaxy.

[TheOldLady]

*Groan* Now I have to go look that up and learn all about it.

As if I have nothing else to do.

Sigh...

;-p

[TheOldLady]

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