Friday, 25 October 2019
We were promised spectacular views of the southern sky, and this trip delivered. We had two stargazing nights at small semi-professional observatories where we could view southern sky objects through a variety of telescopes. I was able to use my camera to capture a few wide-angle views of the night sky at the Pangue Observatory near Vicuña.
We were promised spectacular views of the southern sky, and this trip delivered. We had two stargazing nights at small semi-professional observatories where we could view southern sky objects through a variety of telescopes. I was able to use my camera to capture a few wide-angle views of the night sky at the Pangue Observatory near Vicuña.
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| As the sun set, Venus was visible over the domes on Cerro Tololo |
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| Even well-known constellations seem strange when seen from the southern hemisphere. And at 30° S latitude, the Zodiac is high overhead rather than laying along the southern horizon (as seen in Virginia). From the bottom up: Venus, Mercury, Scorpius, Jupiter, Sagittarius, Saturn. The dome of the Cerro Tololo observatory is visible on the horizon near Venus. [10 sec exposure] |
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| The Milky Way in Sagittarius - the center of the galaxy. [30 sec exposure] |
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| The Magellanic Clouds, small elliptical galaxies near our Milky Way galaxy. |
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| Taken on the beach at La Serena on October 24. We watched the relative positions of Mercury and Venus change over the course of the tour. |
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