The Milky Way over Yepun
The disk of our galaxy, The Milky Way, hovers over Yepun (Venus in Mapuche), the fourth VLT Unit Telescope, in this wide-angle 30-sec exposure. The relatively low contrast of the galactic disk is due to the amount of moonlight in the sky at this point in the time-lapse sequence. The irregular galaxy Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is also visible. Paranal Observatory, Atacama Desert, Chile, 24 Aug 2009. © 2009 José Francisco Salgado, PhD
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The Milky Way over Yepun
The disk of our galaxy, The Milky Way, hovers over Yepun (Venus in Mapuche), the fourth VLT Unit Telescope, in this wide-angle 30-sec exposure. The relatively low contrast of the galactic disk is due to the amount of moonlight in the sky at this point in the time-lapse sequence. The irregular galaxy Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is also visible. Paranal Observatory, Atacama Desert, Chile, 24 Aug 2009. © 2009 José Francisco Salgado, PhD
See the resulting video, cumulative video, meteor shot, Magellanic Clouds shot