Posted on 05/23/2021 3:57:30 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: First came the trees. In the town of Salamanca, Spain, the photographer noticed how distinctive a grove of oak trees looked after being pruned. Next came the galaxy. The photographer stayed up until 2 am, waiting until the Milky Way Galaxy rose above the level of a majestic looking oak. From this carefully chosen perspective, dust lanes in the galaxy appear to be natural continuations to branches of the tree. Last came the light. A flashlight was used on the far side of the tree to project a silhouette. By coincidence, other trees also appeared as similar silhouettes across the relatively bright horizon. The featured image was captured as a single 30-second frame in 2015 and processed to digitally enhance the Milky Way.
(Excerpt) Read more at apod.nasa.gov ...
For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.
Guy has skillz with a camera.
very cool.
Eerie, but cool.
Did you purposely post the wrong pic?
Kitten at “stayed up”.
I think it is the right pic. If you hover your cursor at the one at the link then text and lines appear to identify constellations. I think that is the only difference.
I live in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
There is almost no light pollution.
I’ve seen it atop Mauna Kea, at my home, and in between.
The Milky way doesn’t look like that!
Must be for you city people that rarely if ever see 1/10 of what I do on a clear night, naked eye. That they use time exposures and filters, is to get you to contribute to Astronomical “stuff”. Foolish people.
Full disclosure I retired from working at a world class observatory, so I know how the system works.
75% of these pics are fake. just let out a little sigh and carry on when noticed...
Proof that photography can rise to the level of art.
Could you please be more specific? What makes a photo “fake?”
===Could you please be more specific? What makes a photo “fake?”===
Fake photos are used to manipulate people like you, or used by people like you to manipulate others.
You really felt it necessary to get personal, did you? I hope I remember this should you ever ask for information. At my age, though, I’m likely to forget it in five, four, three, two, one...
Guy has skillz with a computer.......................
Are you sure? The scraggly looking tree in the picture is what they’re calling a “majestic looking oak”?
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