{"id":2015,"date":"2015-12-13T23:02:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T22:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astronom.cz\/horalek\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2016-02-17T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T08:52:03","slug":"pure-skies-at-the-la-silla-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=2015","title":{"rendered":"Pure skies above the La Silla observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_2016\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015_01_22-23_NTT_Zodiak_evening_pano_2070px.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2016\" src=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015_01_22-23_NTT_Zodiak_evening_pano_2070px-1024x423.png\" alt=\"Pure skies at the La Silla observatory\" width=\"388\" height=\"160\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015_01_22-23_NTT_Zodiak_evening_pano_2070px-1024x423.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015_01_22-23_NTT_Zodiak_evening_pano_2070px-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015_01_22-23_NTT_Zodiak_evening_pano_2070px-520x215.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pure skies at the La Silla observatory<\/p><\/div>Many people are still asking themselves or others, if the view to the sky full of stars, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?cat=1\">Milky Way<\/a> and such dark starry foreground is real. Many people don&#8217;t even believe that the Milky Way is something easy to see. It&#8217;s too sad that by living in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Light_pollution\" target=\"_blank\">light polluted cities<\/a> we completely broke the bound with the starry sky. And images like these are for that many people just some sci-fi or result of a &#8220;photoshoping&#8221;. Of course, some postprocesing is needed, but the pure beauty of the Universe has to come on the camera&#8217;s sensor first! One of the places, where you can literally feel the reality of amazing starry sky is ESO&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/lasilla\" target=\"_blank\">La Silla observatory<\/a>, deep and high in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atacama_Desert\" target=\"_blank\">Atacama desert<\/a>. This image, captured on 22nd January 2015, shows the unbelievable purity of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightpollutionmap.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">non-polluted air<\/a>, which allows to capture whole arc of the faintest part of the Milky Way, light of even fainter pink <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emission_nebula\" target=\"_blank\">emission nebulae<\/a> (not visible by eyes), waves of green and orange <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EwqWdy_ZUX8\" target=\"_blank\">glowing air<\/a>, column of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=784\">zodiacal light<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gegenschein\" target=\"_blank\">Gegenschein<\/a> just above the bright planet Jupiter down from the center of the image, two <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magellanic_Clouds\" target=\"_blank\">Magellanic clouds<\/a>, and the observant of you will find even &#8220;Christmas 2014&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C\/2014_Q2_%28Lovejoy%29\" target=\"_blank\">comet Lovejoy<\/a>. Standing in the middle of road to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/sci\/facilities\/lasilla\/telescopes\/ntt.html\" target=\"_blank\">NTT telescope<\/a> was almost like being a bit under the top of the world&#8230; Used Canon 6D Baader IR Modified, Samyang 24 mm, f2.8, ISO 10000, panorama of 52 singular 15s exposures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people are still asking themselves or others, if the view to the sky full of stars, with Milky Way and such dark starry foreground is real. Many people don&#8217;t even believe that the Milky Way is something easy to see. It&#8217;s too sad that by living in light polluted cities we completely broke the&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=2015\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,1,12],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atmospheric-phenomena","category-landscape","category-milky-way","category-zodiacal-light-and-gegenschein","tag-european-southern-observatory"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}