Can you see the Milky Way like this with the naked eye?

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There are dark sky reserves in Canada at least and it almost looks like this, it feels like you're falling off the face of the earth when you look up at the sky at 3am

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How did you get a picture of the Milky Way right next to a light house? Wouldn’t that be super duper light polluting?

I'm sure the photo has been smoothed out in post, no way the exposure was this good at first.

Why do ppl call this the Milky Way ? I’ve read it’s a dwarf galaxy called Sagittarius that’s getting eating up by the Milky Way

It's like a cannon pointing directly at the heart of the galaxy

I’d guess stacked images. Might not even be shot in the same location.

Is this the light house in Cabo Polonio, Uruguay? Im headed to Chile and Uruguay in 2 weeks and will be in Cabo Polonio soon!

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I see this question a lot. Are you always asking them? Lol

But seriously, I have only ever really seen black with white dots of various groupings with the naked eye.

Then realized recently I have a stimitism, which makes looking at stars without glasses very gnarly.

Very nice. Do tell us about your experiences there!

Yes, if you can get far enough away from urban areas, haze, and light pollution.

When I was younger I used to get away to extremely rural areas in the summer and lay in the middle of a back road on the warm asphalt, staring at the sky for hours. After my eyes adjusted, I could see the Milky Way and various gaseous formations. I haven't seen them in years now, it makes me really sad.

It is from the Greek, meaning "milky circle". The galaxy is a flattened disk, and we are inside it. So from our viewpoint it looks like a circle around the sky. They didn't have telescopes, so all they could see is a faint white band.

This is an all-sky view with our galaxy oriented horizontally. Sagittarius is a dwarf galaxy mostly hidden by the center of ours. It is on the other side. It is the nearest galaxy to our own, at 50,000 light years, and orbits the Milky Way. The two blobs on the lower right are the Magellanic Clouds, the next nearest, and also orbit the Milky Way. They are about 3 times farther, and much larger than the Sagittarius dwarf. Both will end up merged with the Milky Way eventually.

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How is this possible? The light from the light house would have obliterated any light from the Milky Way? This is a composite for sure, but most probably from different places. Unless the photographer managed to switch off the lighthouse for an hour or so.

Cool nevertheless.

I also thought the same, If anyone can explain, please?!

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Ive taken images like this, and you either have to have the lighthouse turn on for a very short amount of time during the long exposure, or edit it in afterwards and make it a composite. With higher ISO and a really dark environment, you can get shots of the milky way like this in minutes.

I think it's the one in La Paloma but I'm not sure

I'll image search both of them, thank you! I shoot landscape astro so I've been thinking of ideas when I am there in a few weeks.

The light houe is photographed earlier in the day when it's still a bit light out.

Then the sky is photographed with a motorized mount that moves across the sky (Which would make the lighthouse blurry).

Then photoshop does its magic.

No, it doesn't look much like this to the naked eye. Even in very dark sky areas, the Milky Way looks a lot fainter than this and the colors are basically invisible. Here's a photographer simulating what it would look like, and that matches my experience.

On the other hand, time lapse night sky photos never do a good job capturing just how many stars there are far from the cities. It's wild, and everyone needs to experience it.

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Haha. First timer for me. I get as far out as possible from civilization and I have never seen any color like this. See lots of stars but no color. Might have to give this new phone a try.

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