Up here in the Flinders Ranges the winter night sky is so dark that even a moonlit landscape can’t wash away the spectacle of the Milky Way Galaxy.<\/p>\n
Even the distant galaxies LMC and SMC can clearly be seen just above the ridge-top to the left of the scene as fuzzy cottontball blobs.<\/p>\n
All this captured in a simple single 60 second image just makes me want to go back for more.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Under a Southern Winter Sky’ 60s f\/2.8 ISO1600 15mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Up here in the Flinders Ranges the winter night sky is so dark that even a moonlit landscape can’t wash away the spectacle of the Milky Way Galaxy. Even the distant galaxies LMC and SMC can clearly be seen just above the ridge-top to the left of the scene as fuzzy cottontball blobs. All this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[810],"class_list":["post-5124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-milkyway-galaxy-astronomy-wonder-heavens-smc-lmc-night-sky-flindersranges-widefield-skyscape-stars-moonlight-llandscape-moonlit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5126,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions\/5126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}