Gettin’ closer
The man with the camera, standing against the starry sky and slightly illuminated by the young Moon, is well known and worldly reputable photographer and scientific journalist Babak A. Tafreshi. He was just working on another spectacular photograph over the volcano Miñiques of northern Chilean Atacama desert. While his camera was working and he was standing on the solidified volcanic massif, he finally had a moment for enjoying the sky. Especially the Large Magellanic cloud, the dwarf galactic satellite of our Milky Way. There are, actually, many questions about this irregular galaxy: for example, deep imagining of galactic matter indicates interactions with the Small Magellanic cloud and our galaxy as well. No one also stops with thinking about extrasolar planets moving around stars of the Magellanic cloud. Are we gettin’ closer to the answers? Well, even Babak was probably questioning himself in the moment… Captured on 10th April 2016, used Canon 6D Baader IR modified, Canon 50 mm, f2.8, ISO 6400, 11×15 seconds panorama.
