Night Images Pool (nightpix_flickr) wrote, @ 2023-10-16 11:48:00 |
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Ben_Coffman has added a photo to the pool:
It's a rainy day here in Portland, so once again I'm mining my photo archives, not unlike the folks who built this old shack in the mountains in Death Valley National Park to mine whatever ore they were after. This was from the pre-covid days, February of 2020. I was thankful that I got this trip in, because when I returned seemingly everything changed, and quickly.
There are a few interesting things happening in the sky in this panorama. First off, we're seeing a melange of zodiacal light (left side rising from the horizon to the top of the frame), light pollution (left side near the horizon), and then some airglow (right side close to the horizon). We can also see a couple of planets bathed in the zodiacal light on the left side, with the brightest by far being Venus and then above that and slightly to the right Uranus, which is quite a bit dimmer and quite blue (this is a result of the planet's atmosphere being made of hydrogen, helium, and methane, which absorbs red light but reflect blue).
Technical details: 10 total photos (5 sky and 5 land), all taken from the same tripod position at the same time. The panorama was assembled in PTGui, with final edits taking place in Photoshop.
Thanks for looking!