Jupiter's Double Reflection
Shot taken during the night of September 22nd 2012, at 11:51 p.m.
Location: lake Rosset (2.709 m), Nivolet plateau, Gran Paradiso National Park (Italy).
Due of different motions in the surface water, the intense brightness of planet Jupiter created two reflections! :-)
Obviously in the moments when the flow of water was returning uniform Jupiter was just mirroring in a single long brilliant reflection.
Honestly, I prefer this one, I find it most rare.
Respectively on the left and on the right of Jupiter, the stars Alnath and Aldebaran are too slightly reflecting in the water, but without generating a double reflection... they do not produce enough light to impress the first most rippled layer of water. Jupiter only succeeds because of its strong brightness, second only to the light of the Moon.
I will not go into details, but I suppose it is well known that both the Moon and Jupiter, unlike stars, aren't producing any kind of light, just reflecting... but their proximity to the planet Earth places them at the top of the brightest celestial bodies that we can see in the night sky.
By the way, about the Moon, it set an hour before behind the Basei peak (behind me and my camera)... well, despite this rather long elapsed time, yet emitted light in the atmosphere, in a way no longer visible to the naked eye but easily recognizable in this photo just looking to the high glaciers of the Gran Paradiso.
The halo behind it's just light pollution, coming from distant towns of Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta.
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©Roberto Bertero, All Rights Reserved. This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.
Jupiter's Double Reflection
Shot taken during the night of September 22nd 2012, at 11:51 p.m.
Location: lake Rosset (2.709 m), Nivolet plateau, Gran Paradiso National Park (Italy).
Due of different motions in the surface water, the intense brightness of planet Jupiter created two reflections! :-)
Obviously in the moments when the flow of water was returning uniform Jupiter was just mirroring in a single long brilliant reflection.
Honestly, I prefer this one, I find it most rare.
Respectively on the left and on the right of Jupiter, the stars Alnath and Aldebaran are too slightly reflecting in the water, but without generating a double reflection... they do not produce enough light to impress the first most rippled layer of water. Jupiter only succeeds because of its strong brightness, second only to the light of the Moon.
I will not go into details, but I suppose it is well known that both the Moon and Jupiter, unlike stars, aren't producing any kind of light, just reflecting... but their proximity to the planet Earth places them at the top of the brightest celestial bodies that we can see in the night sky.
By the way, about the Moon, it set an hour before behind the Basei peak (behind me and my camera)... well, despite this rather long elapsed time, yet emitted light in the atmosphere, in a way no longer visible to the naked eye but easily recognizable in this photo just looking to the high glaciers of the Gran Paradiso.
The halo behind it's just light pollution, coming from distant towns of Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta.
_____________________
©Roberto Bertero, All Rights Reserved. This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.