食月与银河
Mid-Eclipse and Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: John Kraus
Explanation: May’s perigee Full Moon slid through Earth’s shadow yesterday entertaining night skygazers in regions around the Pacific. Seen from western North America, it sinks toward the rugged Sierra Nevada mountain range in this time-lapse series of the total lunar eclipse. Low on the western horizon the Moon was captured at mid-eclipse with two separate exposures. Combined they reveal the eclipsed Moon’s reddened color against the dark night sky and the diffuse starlight band of the Milky Way. Frames taken every five minutes from the fixed camera follow the surrounding progression of the eclipse partial phases. In the foreground a radio telescope dish at California’s Owen’s Valley Radio Observatory points skyward.
Tomorrow’s picture: pixels in space
食月与银河
影像提供与版权: John Kraus
说明: 今年5月的近地点满月，在昨天滑入地球的影子里，为太平洋地区的观星者带来月食的享宴。从北美洲西岸看出去，在这幅呈现月全食过程的延时影像系列里，月盘落向崎岖的内华达山脉。这幅由二种不同曝光照片组合成的影像，记录了处在月食中点，低悬在西方地平面上方的月盘。其中可清楚见到，以黝黑夜空及弥漫银河星光为衬托的古铜色月亮。它前方及后方的月偏食定格照片，取像的间隔为5分钟，以显示月食的进程。在影像的前景，还可见到指向天空的加利福尼亚州欧文斯谷电波天文台之射电望远镜的天线碟。
明日的图片: pixels in space
