Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! The Milky Way Over Mount Blanc Credit & Copyright: Marc Sylvestre (Universia) Have you ever seen the band of our Milky Way Galaxy? Chances are you have never seen it like this -- nor could you. In a clear sky from a dark location at the right time, a faint band of light is visible across the sky. This band is the disk of our spiral galaxy. Since we are inside this disk, the band appears to encircle the Earth. The above spectacular picture is a bit of a digital trick, though. A first shot was taken in July 2000 with the camera counter-rotating from the Earth so that the stars appear fixed. This allowed a long exposure from which a great amount of detail could emerge from the background star field. Later, after moonrise, a much shorter image was taken from the same location catching details of Mount Blanc, the highest mountain in Western Europe. Reflections in the water were later enhanced digitally.
Why can't the night sky look like that? That would encourage me to brave the darkness and venture out more
I don't understand how they did that...they took 2 pictures and imposed them on each other? So the sky actually looked like that?
The camera would have been placed on some kind of machanical tripod that followed the stars across the sky so they didn't move relative to it. The shutter would have remained open for a considerable period of time allowing the film to be exposed to more light than we are capable of perceiving through the use of our eyes. What a sight it would be though, if we could see our region of the universe in such detail. It would be a genuinely religious experience as far as I am concerned. Totally mind blowing!
