Wow that’s cool
Is that a fish eye lens?
I love these astronomy photos - keep ‘em coming.
This is only part of the full display. Once in a while we get a full sky display but it is highly dependent on exact sky conditions. The full display has several false suns and a parabolic arc coming off the circle closing to a white sun opposite the real sun among other features.
Excellent!
Now all we have to do is find where Karl Rove hid the dimmer switch.
When St Thomas traveled to India to spread the Gospel of Jesus he found a society that worshiped the Sun. Every 7 days they would enter the water and pray to their God. They would throw water into the air and ask their god to bless this water and when it fell back upon them they believed that they had been blessed by their God.
Thomas had preached the wonder of Baptism but the peope were not impressed, until one day Thomas entered the water and called upon the Lord to show them the Rite of Baptism. The water rose from his hand and when it reached its zenith it stopped above his head and did not fall. He explained that the Baptism of the Christians was all powerful. Those who witnessed this miracle were converted and to this day this state on the Southwest Coast of India is Christian in a country that is otherwise Hindu!
This picture is a powerful force! Amen!
Lovely.
It appears as an upside down diamond ring.
I took this one about 2 weeks ago. M51 Galaxy, at about 37 million light years away. There is some dispute as to how distant this Galaxy actually is. This is the most distant object I have imaged with some success. It's a set of 15 exposures at 50 seconds each, processed and stacked into one image.
