To see the time-lapse video from imager Tony Rowell, click on the picture above.
The video shows a mountain range silhouetted by the center of our galaxy. Start the video and the stars rise and set until morning twilight causes them to disappear.
You might want to watch this video more than once. Try to identify Scorpius and Sagittarius, along with some deep-sky objects. Near the ridge of the mountains, you’ll spot the two stars in the Scorpion’s tail, magnitude 1.6 Lambda (λ) Scorpii (the leftmost one) and magnitude 2.7 Upsilon (υ) Scorpii. They lie about 0.5° apart. To their upper left, Ptolemy’s Cluster (M7) appears as a distinct knot in the Milky Way.
What else can you see? Can you spot the combination of dark nebulae called the Dark Horse?
Videos like this one show how amazing the view is from a dark site. Thanks, Tony!