Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Sun Jan 27 2019 07:49:02 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 January 27 [2] From the Northern to the Southern Cross Image Credit & Copyright: Nicholas [3] Buer [4] Explanation: There is a road that connects the Northern [5] to the Southern Cross [6] but you have to be at the right place and time to see it. The road, as pictured here, is actually the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy; the right place, in this case, is dark Laguna Cejar [7] in Salar de Atacama [8] of Northern Chile [9] ; and the right time was in early October, just after sunset. Many sky wonders were captured then, including the bright Moon [10] , inside the Milky Way [11] arch; Venus [12] , just above the Moon; Saturn [13] and Mercury [14] , just below the Moon; the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds [15] satellite galaxies, on the far left; red airglow [16] near the horizon on the image left; and the lights of small towns at several locations across the horizon [17] . One might guess that composing this 30-image panorama [18] would have been a serene experience, but for that one would have required earplugs to ignore the continued brays [19] of wild donkey [20] s. Tomorrow's picture: galaxy tail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [21] | Archive [22] | Submissions [23] | Index [24] | Search [25] | Calendar [26] | RSS [27] | Education [28] | About APOD [29] | Discuss [30] | > [31] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [32] (MTU [33] ) & Jerry Bonnell [34] (UMCP [35] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [36] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [37] A service of: ASD [38] at NASA [39] / GSFC [40] & Michigan Tech. U. [41] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1901/chilepan_buer_1400.jpg [3] http://www.nicholasbuer.com/ [4] http://facebook.com/nicholasbuerphotography [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_(constellation) [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross [7] https://youtu.be/TRIdvFmIlFU [8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_de_Atacama [9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile [10] ap110711.html [11] ap100913.html [12] ap130512.html [13] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/saturn/overview/ [14] ap130219.html [15] ap180428.html [16] ap130619.html [17] ap171205.html [18] http://www.nicholasbuer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CHILE_4.jpg [19] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uanE7YxW0E [20] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey [21] ap190126.html [22] archivepix.html [23] lib/apsubmit2015.html [24] lib/aptree.html [25] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [26] calendar/allyears.html [27] /apod.rss [28] lib/edlinks.html [29] lib/about_apod.html [30] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190127 [31] ap190128.html [32] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [33] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [34] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [35] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [36] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [37] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [38] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [39] https://www.nasa.gov/ [40] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [41] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .