Namibian sky - Gigalaxy Size:100x140 cm 188 degrees west longitude

188 degrees west longitude

The center of the scene shows the entire Valles Marineris canyon system

and the emotional force of seeing home from the threshold of deep space

filled only by a white sea of clouds

The galaxies are caught in a leisurely gravitational dance and are so crowded that they could fit within a region of space that is less than twice the diameter of our Milky Way's stellar disk

Namibian sky - Gigalaxy Size:100x140 cm 188 degrees west longitudeNamibia is one of the driest and darkest places on the Earth with the excellent conditions for astrophotography. To create the Gigalaxy I spent 3 weeks under such a dark sky. During Project I also captured other astroscapes photographs shows the beauty of the night sky over raw landscape of Namibia. This is one shows the Milky Way rising over the Tivoli Astrofarm. Capturing this photographs in the middle of the night alone under the Milky Way was