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[edit]DescriptionA Sign of the Zodiac (iotw2026a).jpg |
English: This image of the Gemini South telescope is so full of light that it is difficult to believe that it was captured at night. Gemini South is the southern half of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. The wedge-shaped light on the right side of the photo is not from an artificial source (although there are city lights below it), but is a natural phenomenon known as zodiacal light. This occurs when sunlight is scattered off dust particles in the plane of our Solar System, causing part of the sky to become illuminated either after Sun-down or before Sun-up. The zodiac itself is a belt-shaped region on the sky, as seen from Earth, and is the apparent path of the planets in the sky. Gemini Observatory is named after one section of the zodiacal belt: Gemini, the constellation of the Twins. |
Date | 24 June 2020 (upload date) |
Source | A Sign of the Zodiac |
Author | International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Kwon O Chul |
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Credit/Provider | International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Kwon O Chul |
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Source | NSF's NOIRLab |
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Date and time of data generation | 13:00, 24 June 2020 |
JPEG file comment | This image of the Gemini South telescope is so full of light that it is difficult to believe that it was captured at night. Gemini South is the southern half of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. The wedge-shaped light on the right side of the photo is not from an artificial source (although there are city lights below it), but is a natural phenomenon known as zodiacal light. This occurs when sunlight is scattered off dust particles in the plane of our Solar System, causing part of the sky to become illuminated either after Sun-down or before Sun-up. The zodiac itself is a belt-shaped region on the sky, as seen from Earth, and is the apparent path of the planets in the sky. Gemini Observatory is named after one section of the zodiacal belt: Gemini, the constellation of the Twins. |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 21.2 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 15:56, 24 June 2020 |
Projection type | Equirectangular |
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Panorama cropped height | 10,754 |
Panorama full width | 32,810 |
Panorama full height | 16,404 |
Panorama left crop | 6,947 |
Panorama top crop | 2,825 |
Stitching software | PTGui Pro 11.18 (www.ptgui.com) |
Date and time of digitizing | 18:38, 10 September 2019 |
Date metadata was last modified | 10:56, 24 June 2020 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:e73d56ac-bf20-274d-b24f-76a96e0fbd4f |
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