by APOD Robot » Wed Feb 12, 2014 5:07 am
Rocket, Meteor, and Milky Way over Thailand
Explanation: Can the night sky appear both serene and surreal? Perhaps classifiable as serene in the
above panoramic image taken last Friday are the faint lights of small towns glowing across a dark foreground landscape of
Doi Inthanon National Park in
Thailand, as well as the numerous stars glowing across a dark background starscape. Also visible are the planet Venus and a band of
zodiacal light on the image left. Unusual events are also captured, however. First, the
central band of our
Milky Way Galaxy, while usually a common site, appears here to hover
surreally above the ground. Next, a fortuitous streak of a meteor was captured on the image right. Perhaps the most unusual component is the bright spot just to the left of the meteor. That spot is the plume of a rising Ariane 5 rocket,
launched a few minutes before from
Kourou,
French Guiana. How lucky was the astrophotographer to capture the
rocket launch in his image? Pretty lucky -- the image was not
timed to
capture the rocket. What was lucky was how photogenic -- and perhaps
surreal -- the rest of the sky turned out to be.
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