Pillars of Light Shine Over Argentina (Photo)

Pillars of Light Shine Over Argentina (Photo)

by Nina Sen, Space.com Contributor | October 19, 2015 02:35pm ET

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A gorgeous example of a phenomenon known as "light pillars" was captured in this breathtaking scene over Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Astrophotographer Sergio Emilio Montúfar Codoñer took this image on July 20 using a Sony A7 camera with a 14mm f/2.8 Rokinon lens and an Iso 8000. The image combines seven vertical images into a single panorama that documents a series of light pillars at General Belgrano, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Montúfar Codoñer had not initially planned to take an image of the light pillars.

I was doing stars photos, however, clouds came in, there was [a] meteorological prediction of a partially clouded night, however I couldn’t [miss] the chance of doing some Milky Way images in the early winter night, so I went there, to the Salado River, I walk around 1 hour and a half to get to this position," he wrote in an email to Space.com.

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http://www.space.com/30576-pillars-of-light-over-argentina-photo.html

Science:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/122842923