{"id":1143,"date":"2015-01-20T09:15:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T08:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astronom.cz\/horalek\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2016-02-02T13:40:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T12:40:57","slug":"colorful-and-wild-la-silla-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"Colorful and wild La Silla sky"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Colorful and wild La Silla sky<\/p><\/div>\n

As Czech Photo Ambassador<\/a> of European Southern Observatory, I had incredibly wonderful time under the La Silla Observatory<\/a> sky on 19th\/20th January 2015. This time it was far more interesting than I expected. The wonderful colors of airglow waves showed up in my camera immediately, as it was so strong this time. Capturing the beautiful part of the southern Milky way I also had lot of shooting stars up above. Morning zodiacal light rised up while some flashing – visible by eyes – occured low above the horizon. Looking back on the small screen of the camera I was just shocked<\/a>. The powerful Red Sprites<\/a> started to be produced by far thunderstorm. I finished the panorama and just tried to capture more of them. And I succeeded. So below is the result. What the unforgetable night!<\/p>\n

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Red Sprites at La Silla Observatory<\/p><\/div>\n

The closest dome at the picture is 1,54-m Danish telescope<\/a>. Just above the Magellanic clouds you can see large Vela nebula<\/em>, which is unfortunately not visible by eyes due to its red color. Unbelievable strong airglow<\/a> is produced by shining of nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen molecules in the Earth atmosphere. For capturin this picture was used Canon 6D, Samyang 24 mm, f2,8, ISO 10000, 28×10 s panorama (on tripod). The Red Sprites were captured with the same settings as the panorama.<\/p>\n

This image you can download in full dimension as the ESO Picture of the week<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Czech Photo Ambassador of European Southern Observatory, I had incredibly wonderful time under the La Silla Observatory sky on 19th\/20th January 2015. This time it was far more interesting than I expected. The wonderful colors of airglow waves showed up in my camera immediately, as it was so strong this time. Capturing the beautiful…
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