Rudi
10-15-200615th October 2006, 08:12 PM
In prehistoric times people had no television, and they spent a lot of time looking at the stars. Over the millennia, several different myths and stories developed about different constellations, the Milky Way, and other phenomena that can be seen in the night sky. These are different for all the various cultures in the world.
Looking at the Milky Way under a dark sky, the dust lanes (dark patches) that block the light of the background stars become very apparent. Indigenous Australians saw an Emu in the sky when looking at the Milky Way in millennia past - and it becomes very clear in this sky shot from near Ilford, NSW.
EOS 5D, Sigma 12-24mm at 12mm (very slight crop). I forget the exact exposure time, and am too lazy to look it up right now, but it was somewhere between 2 and 5 minutes. (helpful, huh? :D) You can see Jupiter (bright "star" on the left hand edge) as well as some tree tops in the bottom of the image (this is real WIDE field!).
http://i.pbase.com/o4/27/595027/1/59127824._MG_2703.jpg
Looking at the Milky Way under a dark sky, the dust lanes (dark patches) that block the light of the background stars become very apparent. Indigenous Australians saw an Emu in the sky when looking at the Milky Way in millennia past - and it becomes very clear in this sky shot from near Ilford, NSW.
EOS 5D, Sigma 12-24mm at 12mm (very slight crop). I forget the exact exposure time, and am too lazy to look it up right now, but it was somewhere between 2 and 5 minutes. (helpful, huh? :D) You can see Jupiter (bright "star" on the left hand edge) as well as some tree tops in the bottom of the image (this is real WIDE field!).
http://i.pbase.com/o4/27/595027/1/59127824._MG_2703.jpg