Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Winter Night at Pic du Midi
Explanation:
This dreamlike [ http://picdumidi.or…] view looking south from the historic mountain top Pic du Midi Observatory [ http://www.world-he…petitMatin.html ] combines moonlit domes, a winter night sky, and the snowy peaks of the French Pyrenees. Encroaching on the night [ http://www.globe.go…], lights from the La Mongie ski resort illuminate the mountain slopes nearby while the glow along the distant horizon is from urban areas in southern France and Spain. The night sky features stars of the constellations Orion [ http://www.globe.go…] and Gemini with a bright planet Mars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] very near the top edge, left of center. The three prominent domes visible (from left to right) house a 0.6 meter telescope reserved for amateur astronomers, a 1 meter telescope that was used to support the Apollo lunar landing [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] missions, and the new, Sun-watching CLIMSO [ http://www.climso.f…].
Credit and Copyright:
//antwrp.gsfc.nasa.g ov/apod/lib/ about_apod.html#srap ply">Copyright: Alain Sallez (picdumidi.org [ http://picdumidi.org]), David Romeuf (Université Lyon 1 [ http://www.univ-lyo…])
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Mars
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Spain
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France
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
Orion
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Sun
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Mars
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Gemini
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap080125

Winter Night at Pic du Midi
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