Summer Galaxy over the Poloniny

This portrait of the summer Milky Way from northern hemisphere comes from a magical Slovakian place called Poloniny. Not far from a triple border of Ukraine, Poland and wonderful Slovakia, the Poloniny Dark-Sky Park was declared in the end of 2010 as reaction for world’s fights against the artificial light pollution. Patroned by Ivan Bella, the first Slovakian astronaut, the park offers one of the most beautiful views in the sky in the central Europe so far. Even if some far cities don’t give a totally natural dark skies, the place magnifies the attractiveness by wonderful public observatory and planetarium in the Kolonica saddle, located in south-west border of the park. Here I spent so beautiful moments, while observing the annual Perseid meteor shower of 2015. Captured on 10th August 2015, used Canon 6D IR Baader modified, Samyang 24 mm, f2.8, ISO 8000, 16×15 seconds panorama from tripod.