Posted on 11/05/2024 10:51:03 AM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Why were the statues on Easter Island built? No one is sure. What is sure is that over 900 large stone statues called moais exist there. The Rapa Nui (Easter Island) moais stand, on average, over twice as tall as a person and have over 200 times as much mass. It is thought that the unusual statues were created about 600 years ago in the images of local leaders of a vibrant and ancient civilization. Rapa Nui has been declared by UNESCO to a World Heritage Site. Pictured here, some of the stone giants were imaged last month under the central band of our Milky Way galaxy. Previously unknown moais are still being discovered.
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Wow! Is that strange, or what?
When you don’t have an iphone, you build funny looking statues.
I wish I could see that here in the Northern suburbs of Philadelphia, but the light pollution around here is awful.
65 years ago when I was a kid, this same area was mostly farms and the milky way was spectacular - maybe not quite as spectacular as that photo, but spectacular nonetheless.
Also, EVERYONE here voted for IKE.
My, how things have changed.
I wish I could see that here in the Northern suburbs of Philadelphia, but the light pollution around here is awful.
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Sorry, nobody in the world sees that, including the person who took the picture. Using a very high ISO and a fast lens with an aperture of 2.8 or wider, combined with a long exposure gathers much more light than the human eye can see. Combine that with the “glow” filter to make some of the stars and galaxies glow and lots of post processing in Photoshop or similar software and this is the result.
I know that nobody sees it like in the photo - but as I said, it was spectacular nonetheless.
All I have to do is drive up to my brother’s farm in Kempton, PA and I can see the Milky Way the way I saw it here as a kid. Spectacular.
Having grown up in a suburb of Philadelphia, I never saw the Milky Way until I was on night maneuvers at Fort Gordon.
I could not believe the pictures of the recent auroras that my wife took with her Iphone 13 pro+. The photos showed red/green curtain auroras where you could see only a very faint green glow with your eyes from my deck in a city. 50 years ago, few, if any, color photos of auroras (even shot in Alaska) existed because color film was too slow.
She even got pix of the recent comet!
Beautiful.
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Now set as wallpaper on my screen.
I’m probably older than you - the suburbs where I am used to be very rural.
I was able to photograph the comet with my iPhone 11 Pro. I couldn’t see it directly, but just pointed to the sky where I thought it would be, and got lucky.
It’s a beautiful photograph.
Too much light pollution almost everywhere nowadays.
Outstanding!
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