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https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaydaley/15212410475/ My beloved Galactic Dance image which was shot at the summit of Mount Cook (www.flickr.com/photos/jaydaley/14975211327/) was captured while my camera was perched on the face of the mountain capturing this very star trail while the 5 of us romantically sat inside the amazing Plateau Hut and drank the night away under candle light. This epic star trail was almost bought undone by the natural phenomena that I was so ecstatic to witness and capture. The curtains of beautiful pink and yellow light blended together in this trail to given a dull sort of brown tinge through the bottom half of the nights sky. Thankfully I was able to delete those frames without too much consequence and retain New Zealand’s famously clear night sky. I have also heavily cropped the image to reduce the spins over-bearing impact on the foreground and image it-self. Standing at the summit of such a giant mountain and watching such an immense universe spin past really is an observation and study into the scale of the world around us. via JayDaley http://500px.com/photo/85953649