树木环绕：银河之窗
(原标题: Framed by Trees: A Window to the Galaxy)
2021-07-19
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摄影师在脑海中构思这张照片已有一段时间了。他知道头顶上的物体是最亮的，因为它们的光被大气散射的最少。他还知道，每年的这个时候，在南澳大利亚，我们银河系的核心就在午夜左右。追逐着脑海中的画面，他冒险深入库伊托森林（Kuipto Forest），那里高大的辐射松遮住了大部分天空——但这片空地上没有。在那里，透过一扇树木环绕的窗户，他捕捉到了他所设想的当地与遥远自然的结合。他们记录了16张树木和银河系的照片。心宿二是银河系中心平面左侧的一颗明亮的橙色恒星，而半人马座阿尔法星是图像中心右侧的一颗明亮的恒星。朝向银河系中心的方向在心宿二的下方。虽然在几个小时内，地球的自转使银河平面向上和向左移动——很快就在木材后面看不见了，但他的精神形象却永远得到了保证——并在这里展出。在Instagram上关注APOD：英语、波斯语、印尼语、波斯语、葡萄牙语或台湾语
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The photographer had this shot in mind for some time. He knew that objects overhead are the brightest -- since their light is scattered the least by atmospheric air. He also that knew the core of our Milky Way Galaxy was just about straight up near midnight around this time of year in South Australia. Chasing his mental picture, he ventured deep inside the Kuipto Forest where tall radiata pines blocked out much of the sky -- but not in this clearing. There, through a window framed by trees, he captured his envisioned combination of local and distant nature. Sixteen exposures of both trees and the Milky Way Galaxy were recorded. Antares is the bright orange star to left of our Galaxy's central plane, while Alpha Centauri is the bright star just to the right of the image center. The direction toward our Galaxy's center is below Antares. Although in a few hours the Earth's rotation moved the Galactic plane up and to the left -- soon invisible behind the timber, his mental image was secured forever -- and is featured here. Follow APOD on Instagram in: English, Farsi, Indonesian, Persian, Portuguese or Taiwanese
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