New Year's night

[Antu]

Hi guys,

Did you know that astronomers never sleep and they actually work on New Year's eves too ? :-) Here is a panoramic image of the night sky above Las Campanas observatory which I captured during the night 31 Dec / 1 Jan. On the foreground one can see two large Magellan telescopes. The red glow on the right is actually not a light pollution - this is airglow of our atmosphere. I used my Canon 6D and Nikkor 14-24.

High-resolution image is available here:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GWkhvMiaNZA/UsSfvtMiasI/AAAAAAAAAyY/8FOsk5HKbBM/w1484-h794-no/magellans_nye.jpg

Happy New Year ! :-)

Cheers,
Yuri

[h0ughy]

wow what a view, beautiful!

[dvj]

Holly Molly, that would make a great print on my wall. Obviously one of the best locations for imaging in the world. Wonderful work.

j

[LewisM]

Better than any fireworks display could ever hope to be.

Love it.

[rogerg]

awesome :)

[RB]

Great capture.

[Paul Haese]

Very nice work.

[iceman]

Another Yuri special. Brilliant!

[Ross G]

A beautiful photo Yuri!

Happy New Year.

Ross.

[CapturingTheNight]

:eyepop: enough said.

[Antu]

Thanks, guys ! :) I really appreciate your comments.

[StephenM]

Stunning image Yuri!

Cheers,
Stephen

[matt34]

Awesome work and great colour in the sky with the air glow and the nebula