Startrails over the VLT platform

A long series of exposure at night captures these impressive star trails over ESO’s Paranal observatory. The stars appear as trails because of the apparent motion of the sky, which is, in fact, due to the rotation of the Earth on its own axis.

Kredit:

ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)

O snímku

Id:trailsouth-cc
Typ:Fotografický
Datum zveřejnění:21. února 2013 21:43
Velikost:6144 x 4096 px

O objektu

Jméno:Auxiliary Telescopes
Typ:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope
Unspecified : Sky Phenomenon : Night Sky
Kategorie:Paranal

Image Formats


Zvětšovatelný


Pozadí

1024x768
472,5 KB
1280x1024
764,2 KB
1600x1200
1,1 MB
1920x1200
1,2 MB
2048x1536
1,6 MB