Panoramic of Milky Way and Salar de Uyuni from Summit of Incahuasi Island

by James Brunker

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Panoramic of Milky Way and Salar de Uyuni from Summit of Incahuasi Island

Artist

James Brunker

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Photograph - Photograph

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A panoramic shot (made of 11 vertical images stitched together) of the arch of the Milky Way taken from the summit of Incahuasi Island in the middle of the Salar de Uyuni in southwest Bolivia. The yellow / orange colours in the sky above the horizon are airglow or nightglow, caused by various processes in the upper atmosphere (including cosmic radiation, ionization of atoms by the sun's radiation and others).

On the far left of the image you can see the Magellanic Clouds, irregular dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way that can be seen in the southern hemisphere. The lower one is the Large Magellanic Cloud or LMC, above it is the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). To the right of the Milky Way (above the right hand end of the cloud) you can see the Andromeda Galaxy, a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth and the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way. On the far right just above the cactus is The Pleiades star cluster.

The image covers approximately 220 degrees of horizon. The mountain below the right end of the Milky Way is the Tunupa volcano (5320m / 17,460ft) to the north of Incahuasi Island. The lights close to the forked cactus on the left are houses on the Chuvica Peninsula which is to the south. The direct distance between them across the Salar is approximately 80km / 50miles......!

Photograph © James Brunker. Reproduction, transmission, publication or use in any form without written permission strictly prohibited.

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April 21st, 2018

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