The zodiacal light is a faint glow of diffuse sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust.
The zodiacal light is a faint glow of diffuse sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust. Brighter around the Sun, it appears in a particularly dark night sky to extend from the Sun's direction in a roughly triangular shape along the zodiac, and appears with less intensity and visibility along the whole ecliptic as the zodiacal band. Zodiacal light spans the entire sky and contributes to the natural light of a clear and moonless night sky. A related phenomenon is gegenschein, sunlight backscattered from the interplanetary dust, which appears directly opposite to the Sun as a faint but slightly brighter oval glow.
[Source: Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiacal_light]
Exposure 25 sec
ISO 3200
Camera Nikon D800 [7360 x 4912]
Optics Nikkor 14-24 mm lens at 14 mm.
Location SPACE Lodge near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.
Date 2018-04-17
Processing Processed and tweaked in Lightroom.
