Meteor above Yepun
Fifty [stacked] 30-sec exposures spanning approx. 25 min and showing Earth's rotation around the South Celestial Pole (SCP). Notice the meteor passing near the SCP and above Yepun (Venus in Mapuche), the fourth VLT Unit Telescope. The stacked image was then combined with the first frame in the sequence to produce the SCP-centered gradient effect. Photographed from the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Cerro Paranal, Chile.
© 2009 José Francisco Salgado, PhD
See the resulting video, cumulative video, Milky Way shot, Magellanic Clouds shot
Meteor above Yepun
Fifty [stacked] 30-sec exposures spanning approx. 25 min and showing Earth's rotation around the South Celestial Pole (SCP). Notice the meteor passing near the SCP and above Yepun (Venus in Mapuche), the fourth VLT Unit Telescope. The stacked image was then combined with the first frame in the sequence to produce the SCP-centered gradient effect. Photographed from the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Cerro Paranal, Chile.
© 2009 José Francisco Salgado, PhD
See the resulting video, cumulative video, Milky Way shot, Magellanic Clouds shot