Milky
Way and Atacama Andes
The
Milky Way is rising majestically above the Chilean Atacama Andes in the
San Pedro de Atacama region. Most
of the peaks visible in the landscape background have altitudes
above 5000m and even 6000m for some of them. Nearly in the middle
of the image are the Chajnantor mountain (5639 m) and plateau (5300 m)
where the ALMA radio telescope project is being built.
Note
that is image is a one-shot image (in fact a mosaique made of 3
one-shot images), there is no background/foreground composition made
here, or composition of pictures made with different exposure times etc
... instead, the author choose the date and time at which the picture
was taken in
order to have the landscape and observer lit up correctly by the
natural moon light. The camera was mounted on an equatorial mount to
track the stars, explaining why the landscape and observer are slightly
blurred.
© Stéphane Guisard
"Los Cielos de Chile"