sábado, 29 de dezembro de 2012

O MAJESTOSO CÉU TIMELAPSE

Photographer Teoh Hui Chieh from Malaysia created a beautiful timelapse of the night sky in Northern Thailand, and he was lucky to capture Polaris - the North Star and Andromeda Galaxy.  The timelapse was taken over the course of 3 nights: 2 nights on a rooftop in Nan, and 1 night in Doiphukha National Park.   See more of Chieh’s work at his blog, My Dark Sky Featured image: Youtube screenshot/ Teoh Hui Chieh



Foto: More spectacular images from digital photographer Thierry Cohen, who envisions what cities around the world would look like after dark in his series Villes éteintes ("Darkened Cities"). To create the images he travelled to regions far away from all artificial light, but on the same latitude as major cities. He photographed the skies, and then combined those images with photographs of the cities in question, altered to remove all lighting. See the entire series and more of his work on his website here: http://bit.ly/WI6cgX

This Christmas, the Moon and Jupiter are converging for a heavenly sky show. Jupiter and the Moon are only a degree or two apart, depending on your location (in the Americas) and the time of evening. If you watch through binoculars, you can see Aldebaran right nearby as well as stars of the big, loose Hyades cluster in their background. Don’t miss Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (enormous storm big as twice as our planet) – it will be in the middle of the giant planet and extra-special chance for backyard observers. Jupiter climbs to dominate the high eastern and southeastern sky in the evening,...



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