Milky Way at Emily Park


Interpret has a literal meaning here. Unless we are in a very dark sky our eyes cannot see this scene fully in all its natural beauty. Instead we resort to modern digital trickery to "interpret" what we cannot literally see. Built up from six 30-second exposures an image is revealed that is the equivalent of 3 minutes of light gathering. What does this do for us? Contrast between the dust lanes in this arm of the Milky Way and literally a cloud of billions of stars. Oh, and light pollution from surrounding towns and cities.

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