A Kalahari Sky
Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek
Explanation: You wake up in the
Kalahari Desert in
Botswana,
Africa. You go outside your tent, set up your camera, and take
long exposures of the land and sky.
What might you see? Besides a lot of blowing dust and the occasional
acacia tree, you might catch many sky wonders.
Pictured in 2015 September, sky highlights include the
central band of our
Milky Way Galaxy, the
Pleiades Star Cluster,
Barnard's Loop, and both the
Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, to name just a few. Although most of these faded in the morning light, they were quickly replaced by a
partial eclipse of the
Sun.
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