May 7, 2013
On your birthday, photons that left distant stars before humans walked the Earth finally completed their journey. You began yours.
Galaxy Cove Vista
Birthday · May 7, 2013
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APOD published May 7, 2013. Credit: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors). A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
To see a vista like this takes patience, hiking, and a camera. Patience was needed in searching out just the right place and waiting for just the right time. A short hike was needed to reach this rugged perch above a secluded cove in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in California, USA. And a camera was needed for the long exposure required to bring out the faint light from stars and nebulae in the background Milky Way galaxy. Moonlight and a brief artificial flash illuminated the hidden beach and inlet behind nearby trees in the above composite image taken about two weeks ago. Usually obscured McWay Falls is visible just below the image center, while the Pacific Ocean is in view to its right.
Image credit: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors)