Friday, September 22, 2006

Astronomy Pic of the Day

Man, I love this site!


Astronomer Josch Hambsch produced this stunning composite of star trails around the South Celestial Pole with an effective "all night" exposure time of almost 11 hours. To do it, he combined 128 consecutive five minute long digital exposures recorded in very dark night skies above Namibia. In his final image, the background glow on the right is due in part to the faint, arcing Milky Way.

Hope you enjoy it too.

1 comment:

Mamacita said...

That is totally surreal and amazingly cool! I love the pictures on your site!