This year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2009 has been announced, with the award for the Earth and Space category going to Australian photographer Ted Dobosz.

The picture captures a dark, starry night where the glow from the galactic bulge of the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds stretched across the night sky. As the Earth spins during the 30-minute exposure of the photograph, the stars make trails around the southern celestial pole.

(Must have been a still night - No movement in the trees in 30 mins??)

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are you trying to chat us up, with your starry picture? At work
At home

"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

Well, I have tried to start smutty pictures postings, pushed up Nicks numbers on the cars section until you all got bored , added jokes and puzzels, even tried "strange things you see in your travels - So now it's the dreamy milky way.

That reminds me - Must get sweets for my granddaughter tomorrow.......... FL2 TD4 XS Santorini

strange things you see in your travels

I found the rear of a caravan on the verge next to my field today a lump of white fibreglass with a load of 'travel place' stickers on it and a black bumper type thing. If anyone claims it, 'its in the skip'  At work
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"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race