LA Lights in the Night Sky - a photo on Flickriver

            Looking to the north west from Mt. Palomar, California toward the Los Angles basin which is over 60 air miles distant. High clouds form interesting shapes which are illuminated by light pollution from the cities below this mile-high location.

The zero-magnitude star Vega in the constellation Lyra (the Lyre) is visible to the left of center. Vega is the fifth brightest star of the night sky and the third brightest visible from all but the most southern parts of the continental U.S.

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Captured on August 21, 2011 at 2:10AM PDT with a Nikon D300 DSLR camera (ISO 3200, 15 second exposure) using an 18mm-70mm AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor lens at its 18mm f3.5 setting.

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Taken on: August 21, 2011

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Sets appears in: • Stars and Deep Sky Objects

Groups appears in: • Astrophotography - Astronomy - Astrophysics • Nikon Digital

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