Opposing Mars meet Gegenshein
Taken by Jeff Dai on October 10, 2020 @
Kangding, Sichuan, China.
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Date Taken: 2020:10:11 14:52:07
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Take a look at the autumn sky tonight, you will notice the dazzling red planet Mars. Mars is comes to opposition in the on October 13, 2020. As seen from Earth, Mars will appear opposite the sun: in the east at sunset, at its highest at midnight, setting in the west at sunrise. This is similar to a rare faint glow known as the gegenschein, which can be seen 180 degrees around from the Sun in an extremely dark sky. Gegenschein is sunlight back-scattered off small interplanetary dust particles. These dust particles are millimeter sized splinters from asteroids and orbit in the ecliptic plane of the planets. Pictured above from yesterday at Sichuan province of China, Ghostly apparitions of two fundamental planes span in the autumn sky view. The plane of Milky way galaxy arc above the faint green airglow along the horizon on the right. Zodiacal light which along the solar system's ecliptic plane shine on the left. Mars is the brightest object in the view coincide with Gengenschein along the Zodiacal light.
Photo taken on October 10th, 2020. It's a panorama of 21 photos.
Photographer's website:
https://twanight.org/dai
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