The name of Gonzalo Javier Santile, Argentine astrophotographer, goes around the world after having captured two Milky Ways in a single image. She spent 9 hours in a rural city in Argentina, far from light pollution, to achieve the impressive postcard that is combined with a surprising landscape.
According to what the Argentine astrophotographer himself explains, what can be seen in his image is the Milky Way and its galactic center and “the summer Milky Way, which is where we can find Orion as a reference.” you can read in his Instagram post.
“Our planet rotates on its axis and our galaxy shows its arms and its core according to the time of day and month of the year,” says Santile. So, with this in consideration, he went to the Cafayate region, in Salta, to be able to record the wonderful stellar event, he reported. Infobae.
“At the same time, the Earth rotates around the sun and this translational movement gives rise to the different seasons of the year. What we can see in this 360-degree panoramic image is what part of our galaxy looks like at this time of year at two consecutive times but at different times (separated by six hours),” Gustavo explained.
“Here I was able to capture in a period of 9 hours (endless! and very exhausted from 7:30 p.m. to 4 a.m.) those two arms of our galaxy. On the left is the galactic center and on the right is the arm of Orion, which is where our planet is located. I thought that the union was going to be more complex but since Magellan is always in frame it was not so difficult since everything that is in that area of the sky revolves around Sigma Octantis (South Pole) and remains in frame during the night revolving around the pole (like when doing a Circumpolar) coinciding with many stars that always remain visible,” he highlighted.