If you look carefully you can even recognise some constellations....

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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.

Long exposure image of the night sky showing the Milky Way through a glass ball. The core of the Milky Way is in focus within the ball. In the background, the Milky Way and some bright stars are out of focus. The ball is resting on a small base on top of a handrail.

Three constellations – Scorpius, Corona Australis and Sagittarius – arre outlined, both in the background image and within the ball.

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Juan Carlos Muñoz

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.

Setup used to capture the image in the previous toots. There's a glass ball on top of a hand rail at the center of the image. In the foreground there's a Canon 6D camera pointing towards the ball from below. The image of the Milky Way through the ball can be seen in the camera's display.

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