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The VLT at Dawn - 25 Aug 2009

An astronomer carrying a blue flashlight illuminates the Very Large Telescope (VLT) as the morning twilight starts to bathe the eastern part of the sky. Also visible, Jupiter, the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC and LMC), The Pleaiades, Orion, Sirius, and Venus. Paranal Observatory, Atacama Desert, Chile. 25 Aug 09.

© 2009 José Francisco Salgado, PhD

 

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All-sky video, Cumulative video, Milky Way still, 35-exp stack, Moonset,

Earth's Rotation

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