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Star Trails above Table Mountain

Explanation: Stars trail above and urban lights sprawl below in this moonlit nightscape from Cape Town, South Africa, planet Earth. The looming form of Table Mountain almost seems to hold terrestrial lights at bay while the stars circle the planet's South Celestial Pole. This modern perspective on the natural night sky was captured in June 2014, the scene composed of over nine hundred, stacked 30 second exposures. The stunning result was chosen as the winner in the Against the Lights category, a selection from over 800 entries in The World at Night's 2015 International Earth and Sky Photo Contest.

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How does one share the APOD? Like the icon they do on FB?

I liked today's pic on Table Mountains, and since I am going to travel there on a holiday shortly wanted to share this pic directly with some friends who are coming along, although I have sent them this APOD link:-)

Please do let me know.

Thank you, and warm regards,

Anuradha Bhagwat

Awesomely done...really spectacular....but the LINK for discussion goes to the SATURN forum page....

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abhagwat wrote:How does one share the APOD? Like the icon they do on FB?

I liked today's pic on Table Mountains, and since I am going to travel there on a holiday shortly wanted to share this pic directly with some friends who are coming along, although I have sent them this APOD link:-)

Please do let me know.

Thank you, and warm regards,

Anuradha Bhagwat

There is nothing special about the share button other sites have . It is just as good as copy and pasting the link to your timeline, which it seems you have already done. You can also share from our FB page if you want. https://www.facebook.com/AstronomyPictureOfTheDay

abhagwat wrote:I ... wanted to share this pic directly with some friends who are coming along, although I have sent them this APOD link:-)

I don't know which link you sent, but if you sent them this one (for the APOD home page), the picture will change every day:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Here's a permalink to the Table Mountain picture of 2015-June-25:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150625.html

You can get the permalink page by clicking the "Archive" link near the bottom of the APOD home page, then on the list that's presented, click the link for the desired picture.

The last link to the International Earth and Sky Photo Contest is a 8-minute video of dozens of fantastic contest winners and entries. Watch full screen!

These photos are nicely composed, the processing is excellent and the scene is lovely but that's some major light pollution.

So Capetown is on the left; what is the town on the right?

hoohaw wrote:So Capetown is on the left; what is the town on the right?

Should be Camps Bay and Bakoven