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Summer Triangle and Milky Way

author: T.Ladanyi/Novapix

reference: a-vlc02-00163

Image Size 300 DPI: 38 * 30 cm

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way hang over in the starry sky. The sky highlights in this view include the three bright white stars Deneb (left), Vega (brightest at the top), and Altair (middle of image) which forms the Summer Triangle. Below, huge and unique cross section of basalt columns known as Hegyestű. This place is also a former basalt mine, in which one can see the inside of a volcano formed 5-6 million years ago. Visitors can walk in the volcanic crater. These basalt columns of at least 50 m high are unique in Hungary and rare even in the whole Europe, but this is the typical formations of Balaton Uplands. May 2011.

Keywords for this photo:

2011 - ALTAIR - AQUILA - ASTERISM - ASTRONOMY - BASALT COLUMN - CONSTELLATION - CYGNUS - DENEB - GEOLOGY - HORIZON - HUNGARY - LANDSCAPE - LYRA - MILKY WAY - NIGHT - STAR - STARRY SKY - VEGA -