by alter-ego » Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:15 am
Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 11, 2018 1:20 pm
Guest wrote: ↑Tue Sep 11, 2018 12:53 pm
Ummm... I'm pretty sure you can't get a near-vertical image of the Milky Way from Norway! I suspect the background was shot somewhere around the equator?!?!?!?
Why do you think you can't see the Milky Way at this angle from Norway? You certainly can. I'd be interested to know the date and time the image was made. A bit difficult to get a truly dark sky from that latitude during mid-summer. Unfortunately, the imager doesn't seem to have a webpage, just some fairly useless social media links. So not much additional info. (I do wish that APOD wouldn't accept images without technical information.)
Vertical is more the nighttime norm around this time of year. The best way I found to show this is using a composite of Google images showing both terrain and sky. The date/time range is very broad but to display the nominal MW orientation, the time stamp is Sep 9, 2:41am. Also, given the observation position, the field of view is constrained in Google Earth and GE fails to show the rock outcropping, but the lake and mountains recreate the APOD view pretty well. Interestingly, I can't get the MW to lean to the left as much as the APOD (for that view heading). That and funny constellation orientations I have to attribute that to distortion.
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Ummm... I'm pretty sure you can't get a near-vertical image of the Milky Way from Norway! I suspect the background was shot somewhere around the equator?!?!?!?
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Why do you think you can't see the Milky Way at this angle from Norway? You certainly can. I'd be interested to know the date and time the image was made. A bit difficult to get a truly dark sky from that latitude during mid-summer. Unfortunately, the imager doesn't seem to have a webpage, just some fairly useless social media links. So not much additional info. (I do wish that APOD wouldn't accept images without technical information.)
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Vertical is more the nighttime norm around this time of year. The best way I found to show this is using a composite of Google images showing both terrain and sky. The date/time range is very broad but to display the nominal MW orientation, the time stamp is Sep 9, 2:41am. Also, given the observation position, the field of view is constrained in Google Earth and GE fails to show the rock outcropping, but the lake and mountains recreate the APOD view pretty well. Interestingly, I can't get the MW to lean to the left as much as the APOD (for that view heading). That and funny constellation orientations I have to attribute that to distortion.
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