Jupiter Over the Mediterranean
Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)
Posted on 09/07/2009 9:00:35 AM PDT by sig226
Explanation: This vacation included a sight to remember. Pictured above, a picturesque starscape capped a serene seascape as seen from Turkey this past August. In the above digitally stitched panorama, the Gelidonya Lighthouse shines in the foreground before a calm Mediterranean Sea. On the left, Jupiter is the brightest point in the image and since on the same side of the Sun as the Earth, was near its yearly brightest. Glowing just shy of magnitude -3, Jupiter was brighter than any star in the sky, and brighter even than Mars was during its famously bright opposition of 2003 August. On the right, the band of the Milky Way Galaxy fades into distant atmospheric haze above the Jupiter is nearing the closest part of its elliptical orbit to the Sun and so will appear even brighter during its next opposition in 2010 September.
Beautiful!
What an amazing world we’ve been given to live in.
Wow, gorgeous!
Acturally Juptier Romes over the US as well.
I’ve been a supporter of Ryan over at DigitalBlasphemy.com for years, but even Ryan couldn’t recreate a scene like this. I’ve changed my background to something other than a DB background for the first time in 5 years.
Beautiful picture, thanks Sig!
Gee will it be as big as a full moon and never be that big again in our lifetime? /sarc
Spectacular. Reminds me a little of a Nativity scene, first impression.
Cool picture. I spent many years using lighthouses, planets and stars for navigation at sea, it makes me a little nostalgic.
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