Stellar cauldron

[Antu]

Hi guys,

Earlier this month I took a quite unusual panoramic view at the beautiful night sky in Chilean Andes. The field of view is actually more that 360 degrees, which allows one to see not just starry sky, but the surroundings as well. Remarkably, the Milky Way has already set and what you see is just dark sky - a true window to our Universe. One cal also notice faint elongated bluish glow spanning across the sky - this is so called Zodiacal stripe (reflection of the sunlight on tiny particles in the Solar system plane). Magellanic Clouds are also visible on the right.

You can see the high-resolution version right here:

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[Meru]

Wow stunning photo. What equipment did you use for this?

[SkyViking]

What a fantastic image, and the colours are great. That Zodiacal stripe is not often seen, it is much fainter than the usual Zodiacal light cone, very impressive.

[Paul Haese]

Freaky.

[Kunama]

Great image Yuri ! Love it :thumbsup:

[matt34]

Great job, is that Eta Carina at about 9 o clock on the horizon, looks to have alot of colour in that nebula.

[strongmanmike]

Now THAT is a dark and transparent sky :eyepop:

Very cool :thumbsup:

Mike

[siriuslyfuzzy]

excuse the pun :screwy:

[CapturingTheNight]

I knew I forgot to comment on something........ This is sensational Yuri. I could stare at this for ages. Great work once again.

[Antu]

Thanks, guys ! :) This is not a typical landscape shot, but I like the perspective. For this image I used Canon 6D and Nikkor 14-24 lens.

[Miaplacidus]

Absolutely love it!

(How did you manage to stay out of the image?)

Thanks for posting.

Brian.

[Antu]

Well, actually the field of view of this image exceeds 360 degrees - this is a panorama, not a single shot. Therefore, I was always behind the camera while I was taking images.

[iceman]

Wow, awesome!