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LagoonRising_20180415_20mins-v2-lit.jpg When the Milky Way is rising, Lagoon Nebula and Trifid Nebula are easily visible deep sky objects even for naked eyes. This 20mins exposure night sky also allows us digging into some dark nebulae and dust around galactic plane and thinking how the dust could ...

BalancedRock_ZhuoxiaoWang.jpg I'm here to submit a night scape picture shot at Arches National Park, Utah. Night sky above Balanced Rock, one of the famous feature in Arches National Park. It's total 40 meters height, rising the rock 16 meter. Technique details: 3 frames mosaic, 35mm, iso 1600, 15s...

MonoLakeTufa_ZhuoxiaoWang.jpg I'm here to submit a night scape picture shot at Mono Lake, California. Milky Way above at south Tufa Area, Mono Lake. Tufa, showing the on the ground, is one of the limestone formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of alkalic water. Mono lake, with high level o...

The wave like sculpture is in the University of California, Santa Cruz, known as 'the Squiggle'. Looking into this startrails photos, one trail below sculpture, is surprisingly the second brightest star in the whole night sky, Canopus. It's located at -52°42′ declination and rises up no more than 1 ...

The one day phase crescent moon setting into Pacific Ocean.
We can see the magnificent atmospheric refraction when the moon setting down. As moon close to the horizon, it gets flatter and distorted by inversion layer, especially the last one.

Human beings are exploring the universe hundreds of years, but only several men could leave our planet earth to the closest celestial body, the moon. All the time, we are looking at them using telescopes our naked eyes. When will we do the real exploring in this gigantic world, and when could we get...

2016 Perseids above Lake Kanas, Xinjiang Province, China. Associate with comet Swift-Tuttle, Perseids is one of three main meteor showers in north hemisphere, with ZHR~120 usually. This year, with Jupiter Saturn deflection and a bunch of debris of the comet, ZHR would hit 200 in some scientists pred...

Mono Lake, where this calcium carbonate pillar called Tufa formed in lakebed, has a great night sky condition. The milky way presents as a giant luminous band even by naked eye. Fig 1. With strong airglow excited by unknown atmospheric activity hundred miles away, green light served as weak aurora s...

Shot in Death Valley dark-sky park.
At this hottest, lowest, driest place, we can also feel darkest night sky to show milky way with much detail.
A girl standing in the sand dune, blends in the sky.

Death Valley National Park, an international dark-sky park certified by International Dark Sky Association. The only light region comes from 200km away Las Vegas. Also the thin clouds make Mars and Saturn scattered to be much larger and brighter. -- Zhuoxiao Wang PhD candidate in Astrophysics, Tsing...

Here is the Milky Way shot in Mauna Kea, August 13th, when the whole rainbow across the sky.

From the palette around Antares to the galactic center.

Here is the milky way from the galactic center to cygnus.

Crescent moon, Venus and Mar gathering. Shot on February 20th evening in front of Santa Cruz lighthouse.

On 8th Oct. when the Lunar eclipse occurred, the night is darken enough, and the splendid milky way appeared clearly! It is the only way on the ground to see bright milky way at full moon. I made a panoramic photograph with this scenery. At the top of Mountain Ling around Bejing, the haze and mist a...