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To starsurfer,

Thank you

Awesome Photo. Awesome place. But beware of melting roads. :)

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[quote="Denis 1000"]Hello,
Fantastic photo, thank you for posting it.

Is the centre of the Milky Way visible in this photo?

Thanks[/quote]
Yes it is in the right half of the image.

Hello,
Fantastic photo, thank you for posting it.

Is the centre of the Milky Way visible in this photo?

Thanks

Thanks everyone. Its really cool to have people respond and appreciate things!

AWESOME!!!!

A NIGHT TIME RAINBOW OF STARS!!!!!!!
And the pools are great too.

Great Work!!

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Beautiful panorama!
Was the comment about the Yellowstone Caldera going badaboom necessary? There's even an hour video on yootoob describing the possible event and how active the Yellowstone region is. Southeast of Yosemite is Mammoth Mountain, in another active caldera region. There are dead-tree zones from the carbon dioxide coming up out of the ground (don't make camp inside a depression or someplace CO2 can gather). Either Mammoth or Yellowstone could pretty-much ruin our day, but it may not happen for thousands of years...or maybe tomorrow bwahahaa!
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Whew! Glad I live in Maryland!

Thank Orin, and thanks to everyone at APOD for taking time all these years to share the sky with us. It's a honor to have an image appear as an APOD that is not easily forgotten.

Very nice picture! 8-) :thumb_up: :clap:

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