Starship Asterisk*

Is that snow in Hawii in the foreground?

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090219.html

Yes, Mauna Kea has a high enough elevation (> 4.2 km), its summit is regularly snow covered in winter, even in Hawaii.

For more pictures of Mauna Kea and the observatories there, I suggest you go to the CFHT Hawaiian Starlight site.

There are lots of star circles in this photo (you know .. the kind of join the dots thing, star to star, making circles, which someone on apod did for us awhile back.)

I've been told you can ski on that mountain.

bystander wrote:Yes, Mauna Kea has a high enough elevation (> 4.2 km), its summit is regularly snow covered in winter, even in Hawaii.

<<Mauna kea means "white mountain" in the Hawaiian language, a reference to its summit being regularly covered by snow in winter.
There are limited ski areas on Mauna Kea, with no ski lifts or services provided.>>
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"White Mountains":

4208 m Mauna Kea : (Hawaiian)
4342 m White Mountain Peak : (Californian)
4807 m Mont Blanc : (French)
5963 m Mount Kilimanjaro : (Swahili)
8167 m Dhaulagiri : (Nepalese)

I understand the large glow of the city lights in the cloud, but what's with the smaller, similiar spot off to the left?

To the left and below Antares, on the edge of the Milky Way, in an open patch of sky there is a faint line transcending upwards at a gentle angle from right to left.

In trying to point out where it is located, and in laymans terms - looking at the photograph locate Antares, shift your eyesight approximately 4 inches to the left and 1 inch below and there is the image that I am referring to.

Does anybody have any idea what that might be?

Thornton Red wrote:To the left and below Antares, on the edge of the Milky Way, in an open patch of sky there is a faint line transcending upwards at a gentle angle from right to left.

In trying to point out where it is located, and in laymans terms - looking at the photograph locate Antares, shift your eyesight approximately 4 inches to the left and 1 inch below and there is the image that I am referring to.

bystander wrote:

Thornton Red wrote:To the left and below Antares, on the edge of the Milky Way, in an open patch of sky there is a faint line transcending upwards at a gentle angle from right to left.

In trying to point out where it is located, and in laymans terms - looking at the photograph locate Antares, shift your eyesight approximately 4 inches to the left and 1 inch below and there is the image that I am referring to.

MKMilkyWaypan_pacholka_excerpt.jpg

Yes, that's what I was referring to but what is it?

Thornton Red wrote:Yes, that's what I was referring to but what is it?

Don't know. Some kind of artifact.

bystander wrote:

Thornton Red wrote:Yes, that's what I was referring to but what is it?

Don't know. Some kind of artifact.

Wally Pacholka panorama's are computer stitched photo composites
which were never intended to be scrutinized in detail.