Milky Way and Temple of the Moon
Temple of the Moon rises 285 feet from the floor of Cathedral Valley, in the northern primitive section of Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. The Milky Way is our galaxy, a large part of which is shown here. I wonder if its size can really be comprehended by the human mind--it is 100,000 light years across and it contains 100,000,000,000 (one hundred billion) stars.
The dark portions of the Milky Way are interstellar clouds of dust or gases (helium or hydrogen) that occlude portions of the Milky Way that would otherwise glow brightly. Can you find the Dark Horse Nebula?
This image was finished in Photoshop by combining a composite of the stars with a composite of the terrestrial landscape. Five landscape images (225 sec, ISO 5000, F 2.8) were stacked in photoshop to make one composite. Thirty-four images (13 sec, ISO 6400, F 1.8) were rotated in StarryLandscapeStacker to focus the stars as bright points of light for the celestial composite.
Milky Way and Temple of the Moon
Temple of the Moon rises 285 feet from the floor of Cathedral Valley, in the northern primitive section of Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. The Milky Way is our galaxy, a large part of which is shown here. I wonder if its size can really be comprehended by the human mind--it is 100,000 light years across and it contains 100,000,000,000 (one hundred billion) stars.
The dark portions of the Milky Way are interstellar clouds of dust or gases (helium or hydrogen) that occlude portions of the Milky Way that would otherwise glow brightly. Can you find the Dark Horse Nebula?
This image was finished in Photoshop by combining a composite of the stars with a composite of the terrestrial landscape. Five landscape images (225 sec, ISO 5000, F 2.8) were stacked in photoshop to make one composite. Thirty-four images (13 sec, ISO 6400, F 1.8) were rotated in StarryLandscapeStacker to focus the stars as bright points of light for the celestial composite.