Sky – structures & shapes

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

To all readers of my posts and visitors of my website: Happy holidays and best wishes for 2025! Although the Star of Bethlehem was most likely not a comet, I was really impressed when getting comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS which visited Europe in October in front of my lens!
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Rub al-Kahli desert and the land of frankincense

Sunset in the desert! What an experience on the dunes of the “Empty Quarter” three hours drive north from Salalah. The colors, the calmness and the slience are just mind-blowing.
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Southern Cross

While it is well known that the north of Chile is the place of the largest and best observatories in the world, I tried a shot just with my DSLR and a wide angle lense in the Torres del Paine National Park which is located in the south of Chile.
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Behind the Shot – Perseids Meteor Shower

In my last post I shared the same shot as one usually sees the sky. With some magic using Adobe Lightroom one can get much more out of such an image even though the human eye cannot see the sky like this.
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Category: Sky