Valle
de la Luna and Big Dipper
Symbol
of the Northern hemisphere sky, the big Dipper can also be seen from
the Northern regions of the Southern hemisphere. This image showing the
big dipper "upside-down" was taken in the Valle de la Luna (Moon
Valley) in the San Pedro de Atacama region, Northern Chile, at a
latitude close to the tropic of Capricorn. This latitude is just enough
to let the 7 main stars of the constellation to be visible.
© Stéphane Guisard
"Los Cielos de Chile"
