The night had no moon, but the stars [
http://www.astro.ui…] were out. And camped at 16,000 feet on Mt. Kilimanjaro [
http://volcano.und.…img_kilimanjaro.html ], photographer Dan Heller recorded this marvelous [
http://www.danhelle…Mountain/Slideshow/i mg15.html ] 3 1/2 hour long exposure. Here the landscape is lit mostly by the stars [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Flashlights give the tents an erie internal radiance while the greenish glow from the distant city lights of Moshi, Tanzania filter through the clouds below. The view from this famous [
http://xroads.virgi…] equatorial African [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…] mountain is toward the south, putting the South Celestial Pole close to the horizon on the far left, near the center of the graceful concentric star trail [
http://www.danhelle…] arcs. In the thin air and clear dark skies, even the ghostly Milky Way [
http://home.arcor-o…] left a faint triangular glow as it swept across the middle of the dreamlike scene.
Explanation
The night had no moon, but the stars [
http://www.astro.ui…] were out. And camped at 16,000 feet on Mt. Kilimanjaro [
http://volcano.und.…img_kilimanjaro.html ], photographer Dan Heller recorded this marvelous [
http://www.danhelle…Mountain/Slideshow/i mg15.html ] 3 1/2 hour long exposure. Here the landscape is lit mostly by the stars [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Flashlights give the tents an erie internal radiance while the greenish glow from the distant city lights of Moshi, Tanzania filter through the clouds below. The view from this famous [
http://xroads.virgi…] equatorial African [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…] mountain is toward the south, putting the South Celestial Pole close to the horizon on the far left, near the center of the graceful concentric star trail [
http://www.danhelle…] arcs. In the thin air and clear dark skies, even the ghostly Milky Way [
http://home.arcor-o…] left a faint triangular glow as it swept across the middle of the dreamlike scene.
Explanation
