Gregory's ServerCan you trap a galaxy in a crystal ball? I tried! Back in 2018 I took this image of the Milky Way through a crystal ball from ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.
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For those of you into photography, I took this with a Canon 6D and a Rokinon 24 mm lens at f/4, with 30 seconds of exposure time at ISO 6400. I placed the ball on top of a handrail, with the camera slightly below it pointing towards the Milky Way, which was close to the horizon at that time. |
If you look carefully you can even recognise some constellations. Due to the way the ball projects the image, the constellations in the background and within the ball are symmetric relative to the center of the ball.