Night Sky Above the Salt Flats

Back in September, we featured a panorama of the salt flats in Utah’s West Desert.  The panorama below was created in exactly the same spot, but an hour later:

Sometimes one hour can make all the difference!  The green glow along the horizon is not from any aurora (which I still have never seen!), but from distant city lights.  From the opening view, if one rotates  left to the orange glow on the horizon and then looks up a ways, the Andromeda Galaxy can be seen as a very small horizontal smudge below the Milky Way.

Thank You!

Martin

A Winter Night’s Sky

At this time of year, I find a renewed fascination with things celestial, and  I hope you find this Christmas offering to be more than dots in the sky and sage on the ground.  I very much appreciate all of you who subscribe to these mailings and take a moment out your busy days to view these panoramas.  I enjoy receiving your posts and emails, and try to answer them all  (I’m sure I miss some).

Utah has many great areas from which to view the night sky.  This panorama was made between Kanab and Lake Powell.  The  opened panorama text will contain a link to a second panorama with constellations labeled:

Whatever holiday you might observe, I hope for you the very best.

Merry Christmas,

Martin