Posted on 06/03/2022 2:33:55 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: With this creative astro-collaboration you can follow the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy as it bridges northern and southern hemisphere skies. To construct the expansive composite nightscape, skies over Observatorio El Sauce in Chile (top) were imaged on the same date but 6 hours later than the skies over the Saint-Veran observatory in the French Alps. The 6 hour time-lag allowed Earth's rotation to align the Milky Way above domes at the two sites. All exposures were made with similar cameras and lenses mounted on simple tripods. A faint greenish airglow is visible in the dark Chilean sky that also features the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds near the observatory dome. In the French Alps light pollution is apparent, but the distant Andromeda Galaxy can still be spotted near the horizon in the northern night. On planet Earth the two observatories are separated by about 10,000 kilometers.
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.
I’m guessing the galactic center is near the bottom?
“To avoid war, the galaxy is between the two observatories”
I think the pic is inverted. That should be near the bottom.
That is Orion in the middle of the ‘bridge’. The galactic center is behind the observers (below the horizon)
bridge if sighs...
I just looked again. The region towards the bottom is the opposite of the galactic center. In the direction of Persus/Auriga.
I didn’t put much thought into it; it just seemed more bulgy and adumbrated on that end.
A fault on my end. I sometimes give more information than people want.
All comes from being a Librarian.
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