Smack-dab in the middle
DAY 1 - MILKY WAY IN COMPANY OF ETA AQUARIDS
Milky Way in company of Eta Aquarids
I turned the camera to the right. Time to captur...
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DAY 1 - MILKY WAY IN COMPANY OF ETA AQUARIDS
Milky Way in company of Eta Aquarids
I turned the camera to the right. Time to capture the entire Milky Way. Well, I mean, the part of the galaxy that an observer in the Northern Hemisphere could see.
Across the sky filled with thousands of stars over the vast sea of sand dunes, steadily traversing was our galaxy.
I wasn’t necessarily expecting to catch a meteor shower or a meteorite. But it was mid-May, so the Eta Aquarids were on the radar, albeit it was about a week or two past its peak.
Unlike the most popular meteor shower Perceids in August, it’s not easy to spot the shower, let alone individual meteorites, simply because it’s not as visible as in the tropical and Southern Hemisphere. Nonetheless, I knew it would be one of them if I saw one.
It isn’t an easy feat to catch one when it wasn’t a peak, let alone catching one shooting right across the galactic core of the Milky Way.
And yet where it was. Smack-dab in the middle!
Kelso Dunes, Mojave National Preserve, CA
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Milky Way in company of Eta Aquarids
I turned the camera to the right. Time to capture the entire Milky Way. Well, I mean, the part of the galaxy that an observer in the Northern Hemisphere could see.
Across the sky filled with thousands of stars over the vast sea of sand dunes, steadily traversing was our galaxy.
I wasn’t necessarily expecting to catch a meteor shower or a meteorite. But it was mid-May, so the Eta Aquarids were on the radar, albeit it was about a week or two past its peak.
Unlike the most popular meteor shower Perceids in August, it’s not easy to spot the shower, let alone individual meteorites, simply because it’s not as visible as in the tropical and Southern Hemisphere. Nonetheless, I knew it would be one of them if I saw one.
It isn’t an easy feat to catch one when it wasn’t a peak, let alone catching one shooting right across the galactic core of the Milky Way.
And yet where it was. Smack-dab in the middle!
Kelso Dunes, Mojave National Preserve, CA
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