Star Trails and People Trails

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The rotating earth causes the stars to appear to move across the sky as captured in this 2 hour exposure. New Mexico Skies is a guest observatory for amateurs and hosts amateur telescopes in small domes which are operated remotely across the internet. The red lights, which don’t harm dark-adjusted vision, are trails of the star gazers moving across the complex.

120 min. exposure, Canon 20D, ISO 400 20mm lens @f/5.6 .
New Mexico Skies, Mayhill, New Mexico