Starship Asterisk*

With these glows looking like cirri the photographer may have felt himself like under a dome. :o

This is a remarkable picture! At first glance I thought the skyglow was the aurora borealis. The reflection of the sky in the terraced rice paddies is truly lovely.

Nice work Mr. Yongjiang!

Are the small points of light that appear very close to the surface of the terraced landscape reflections of the stars in the water flooding the rice paddies? The size and brightness matches the heavenly bodies above. At first, I took them to be fireflies (or something similar) until I zoomed in to the image enough.

Pretty (and) phenomenal.

Lovely image.

Is it me or is that image rotated a few degrees clockwise?

Growing rice,
In between
the Glow
of Heaven
and Earth....

When you look up to the heavens, you see our Father.
When you look down, you see our Mother.
We are the Children, in between...

What an inspiring APOD....and quit a coincidence....I had Rice today....

That is some Sirius Red Glow.

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What a lovely APOD. Both the sky and the Earth are terraced.

Ann

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[b] Explanation: [/b] Long after sunset on January 25 an unusually intense red airglow floods this south-looking skyscape. The scene was recorded with a long exposure using a digital camera over Yunnan Province in southwest China. At best faintly visible to the eye, the lingering airglow is [url=http://www.atoptics.co.uk/highsky/airglow2.htm]due to chemiluminescence[/url], the production of light through chemical excitation. Originating at an altitude similar to aurora, it can found [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130420.html]around the globe[/url]. The chemical energy is initially provided by the Sun's extreme ultraviolet radiation On this night, despite the luminous atmosphere, the band of the Milky Way clearly stretches above the horizon with bright star Sirius near the top of the frame. Both airglow and starry sky are beautifully reflected in region's watery [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuanyang_County,_Yunnan]Yuanyang rice terraces[/url] below.

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