Jamie Gilbert
Yellow glows
Another shot taken near Siding Spring Observatory in regional NSW, Australia. The skies in this area are very dark, but still the light pollution bubbles up all around. Here the Milky Way skirts the horizon, and the Large Magellanic Cloud (another galaxy) can be seen in the top left. Those guys under the yellow lights - more than 70 kms away and mostly in very small towns - couldn't have seen what was right above them. Just goes to show how much stray light must come from cities.
This is a stitched panorama of 7 images.
Yellow glows
Another shot taken near Siding Spring Observatory in regional NSW, Australia. The skies in this area are very dark, but still the light pollution bubbles up all around. Here the Milky Way skirts the horizon, and the Large Magellanic Cloud (another galaxy) can be seen in the top left. Those guys under the yellow lights - more than 70 kms away and mostly in very small towns - couldn't have seen what was right above them. Just goes to show how much stray light must come from cities.
This is a stitched panorama of 7 images.