

All the dust above the Kalahari
While we were oversleeping in the
Kalahari desert on 13th September 2013, the sandy air covered all the views around the horizon of
Dqae Qare Farm. But the skies were full of much more farther dust. First at all the interstellar dust in the “falling”
Milky Way, making a rich structures of of dark nebulae. Second kind of dust made me even more surprised in those conditions – it was the light strip of
zodiacal light strung out of the all-sky view with the
bright Gegenshein in the constellation
Pisces. Variously dusted sky made even more interesting the rising Orion, two Magellanic clouds or Andromeda galaxy and the galaxy M33 in Triangle. Actually, five galaxies and some pink emission nebulae – full of the cosmic dust – joined the symbolic view really very well. So this is the view the all the dust above the Kalahari desert. Used Canon 6D Baader Mod, Samyang 24 mm, f2.0, ISO 10000, 53×15 s stereographic all-sky panorama.