The Milky Way From a Meteorite Crater

My pal Babak Tafreshi takes wonderful pictures of the night sky, and he sent me the link to that shot above recently. Isn't it lovely? I urge you to click it to see the original, which is somewhat bigger (plus I had to compress the file size a bit here, which makes it look a bit chunky). It's an unusual shot, encompassing a huge swath of sky; by my eye, about 140° from the bottom to the top. You can see the pinkish glow of the massive Carina nebula at the bottom, and the bright star Vega near t...