skypointer2000
Towards the Core
This certainly is my best airborne Milky Way image so far:
Cruising at 36'000 feet over a thick cloud cover in Belgium, I first captured an aircraft on a lower opposite track.
Not happy with the starry skies in the direction of this shot, I immediately took another image of the setting Milky Way core more to the West. Unfortunately the foreground in this direction was much duller, as the clouds were not lit as much by light pollution from below.
During post processing, I therefore combined the foreground of the first image with the sky of the second.
Only then, I noticed that the trail of the opposite aircraft now pointed exactly towards our galactic core, which harbors a giant black hole, called Sagittarius A*.
The last thing a spaceship entering a black hole would pass, before disappearing forever from our universe, is the so called event horizon - the boundary where not even light can escape the gravity of the black hole.
Luckily, the guys down there where flying in the other direction! However, guess where we were heading to...
Thanks for all faves and comments, They are highly appreciated.
Towards the Core
This certainly is my best airborne Milky Way image so far:
Cruising at 36'000 feet over a thick cloud cover in Belgium, I first captured an aircraft on a lower opposite track.
Not happy with the starry skies in the direction of this shot, I immediately took another image of the setting Milky Way core more to the West. Unfortunately the foreground in this direction was much duller, as the clouds were not lit as much by light pollution from below.
During post processing, I therefore combined the foreground of the first image with the sky of the second.
Only then, I noticed that the trail of the opposite aircraft now pointed exactly towards our galactic core, which harbors a giant black hole, called Sagittarius A*.
The last thing a spaceship entering a black hole would pass, before disappearing forever from our universe, is the so called event horizon - the boundary where not even light can escape the gravity of the black hole.
Luckily, the guys down there where flying in the other direction! However, guess where we were heading to...
Thanks for all faves and comments, They are highly appreciated.