{"id":2982,"date":"2017-04-12T13:13:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T12:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astronom.cz\/horalek\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2020-05-11T16:39:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:39:49","slug":"within-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=2982","title":{"rendered":"The Milky Way within reach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Within reach…<\/p><\/div>\n

Each of us was sometimes dreaming about how it would be within reach with the Milky Way. There are many ancient legends<\/a> speaking about Milky Way as a sky part of river on the Earth, smoke of souls moving towards a gods or even bride’s veil. Along the cultures, the Milky Way was such a mystery and inspiration for wonderful stories. All has changed by first telescopic observation by Galileo Galilei<\/a> in 17th century, which revealed many distant stars in the “milk”. In 20th century, the Milky Way was correctly defined as galaxy, member of local group<\/a>. However, the feeling of the fascination never disappears, when you stand under the Milky Way and see all the beauty of it. This is what I felt on 4th April, 2016, while standing in the deep Atacama desert<\/a> of Chile, far from the light pollution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The image is also “using” the Milky Way as a bridge between human (me, standing on left) and the high level technology for exploring (not only) the Milky Way (the distant ESO’s Paranal<\/a> and VISTA observatory<\/a> on right). Along the Milky Way there are numerous dark and emission nebulae, the interstellar matter<\/a>. Except the Milky Way itself, you can spot Magellanic clouds<\/a> – small galaxies low over the horizon – or fuzzy green comet 252P LINEAR<\/a> on the edge of Great Rift<\/a>. The brightest object, with orange color, is red planet Mars. Lower can be found white-colored Saturn. From the Solar System, another “object” is zodiacal light<\/a>, rising as a faint light column left from the center of the image. Greenish and yellowish tinge of the sky is caused by natural airglow<\/a> in the high atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Used Canon 6D Baader IR modified, Samyang 24 mm, f2.8, ISO 10000, 39×15 seconds panorama from tripod. Feel free to download full-resolution version<\/strong> of the image from European Southern Observatory website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each of us was sometimes dreaming about how it would be within reach with the Milky Way. There are many ancient legends speaking about Milky Way as a sky part of river on the Earth, smoke of souls moving towards a gods or even bride’s veil. Along the cultures, the Milky Way was such a…
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