Altair of Aquila Constellation on the left, Saturn, shy behind the pine tree, Jupiter shining bright riding on the Dark Horse of the Milky Way (top right)This image was shot in the small hours of 7 April 2019 from Ranikhet Golf Course.Standing at the Himalayan dark location of Ranikhet Golf, with no lights in the vicinity, a summer moonless night, we can trace the path of the Milky Way across the entire heavens, as a wide glowing band, from the Perseus-Cassiopeia region, through the bright star clouds of Cygnus, and then southwards through Aquila and Scutum, to the culminating splendour of the Sagittarius cloud above the southern horizon. We can follow the course of the "Great Rift" which divides the Milky Way into two parallel streams all the way. The Rift, of course, is nothing more than the dark band of dust clouds, not illuminated by any star.From the Earth we are looking at our own Galaxy - up close.
Altair of Aquila Constellation on the left, Saturn, shy behind the pine tree, Jupiter shining bright riding on the Dark Horse of the Milky Way (top right)This image was shot in the small hours of 7 April 2019 from Ranikhet Golf Course.Standing at the Himalayan dark location of Ranikhet Golf, with no lights in the vicinity, a summer moonless night, we can trace the path of the Milky Way across the entire heavens, as a wide glowing band, from the Perseus-Cassiopeia region, through the bright star clouds of Cygnus, and then southwards through Aquila and Scutum, to the culminating splendour of the Sagittarius cloud above the southern horizon. We can follow the course of the "Great Rift" which divides the Milky Way into two parallel streams all the way. The Rift, of course, is nothing more than the dark band of dust clouds, not illuminated by any star.From the Earth we are looking at our own Galaxy - up close.