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Posted On: October 8th 2026, 04:46 am
Stepping into the hills to look at three completely different scales of reality. 🌌🔭
Tonight, I wanted to map out a massive perspective shift, zooming from our local backyard out into the deep cosmos.
📍 Slide 1 & 2: The Local View (~20 Kilometers)
A layer of low fog rolling over the San Francisco waterfront, framing the glowing lights of the SkyStar Wheel at Fisherman’s Wharf. (In the video loop, you can actually see the ground heat turbulence rising off the distant city!). Captured from the Foothill dorms.
🪐 Slide 3: The Planetary Neighborhood (~100 Million Kilometers)
If you zoom in on that bright point in the twilight sky, it isn’t the Moon. It’s Venus. Because it orbits inside Earth’s path, it goes through phases just like our moon. I managed to resolve its sharp, slender crescent shape right as it set behind the city.
🌌 Slide 4: The Deep Universe (2.5 Million Light-Years)
Saturn had its opposition peak earlier this week, but tonight finally belongs to our closest galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). This data was captured during a clear night out at Granite Bay to escape the campus light pollution. The light hitting my telescope sensor tonight left those trillion stars when early hominids were first walking the Earth.
It’s wild to think about the people down at the entertainment wheel looking at the city lights, completely unaware of the massive cosmic theater spinning right above them.
Which distance scale blows your mind the most? Let me know in the comments below!🪐👇
#Astrophotography #AndromedaGalaxy #CrescentVenus #SanFranciscoSkyline #CosmicScale
Tonight, I wanted to map out a massive perspective shift, zooming from our local backyard out into the deep cosmos.
📍 Slide 1 & 2: The Local View (~20 Kilometers)
A layer of low fog rolling over the San Francisco waterfront, framing the glowing lights of the SkyStar Wheel at Fisherman’s Wharf. (In the video loop, you can actually see the ground heat turbulence rising off the distant city!). Captured from the Foothill dorms.
🪐 Slide 3: The Planetary Neighborhood (~100 Million Kilometers)
If you zoom in on that bright point in the twilight sky, it isn’t the Moon. It’s Venus. Because it orbits inside Earth’s path, it goes through phases just like our moon. I managed to resolve its sharp, slender crescent shape right as it set behind the city.
🌌 Slide 4: The Deep Universe (2.5 Million Light-Years)
Saturn had its opposition peak earlier this week, but tonight finally belongs to our closest galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). This data was captured during a clear night out at Granite Bay to escape the campus light pollution. The light hitting my telescope sensor tonight left those trillion stars when early hominids were first walking the Earth.
It’s wild to think about the people down at the entertainment wheel looking at the city lights, completely unaware of the massive cosmic theater spinning right above them.
Which distance scale blows your mind the most? Let me know in the comments below!🪐👇
#Astrophotography #AndromedaGalaxy #CrescentVenus #SanFranciscoSkyline #CosmicScale
Comments (7)
a month agodimitridsmedia
Nice photo of andromeda, seeing the clouds shift and move is really neat too. It’s crazy to think how massive clouds appear yet how small our entire planet is compared to the rest of the cosmos.
a month agojupiterobserves
Can you resolve the slender crescent shape of Venus as it sets in the Slide 1 video loop, or do you see it better in the Slide 4 close-up crop? 🪐 Let me know below!
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