ATacama At Night --- ATAN

How does it appear an unpolluted sky? What can be seen? How many stars? And the Milky Way is visible? These are some of the questions that many persons are asking to me, so I decided to create a time lapse video with the footage taken during the last three months under the Atacama Sky. This video well shows you the beauty of the sky. With naked eye you don't see the colours and the contrasts are more tenuous, but the show is still gorgeous. Enjoy the time lapse with 4K resolution:

The Atacama desert, in northern Chile, is the driest and most ancient desert of the world. This narrow strip of land, where the Sun shines more than 320 days per year, has something special: due to the dry air, high altitude and the lacking of light pollution, the Atacama desert is by far the best place on Earth to observe the sky. In the Atacama desert the stars shine like no other place on Earth. There are so many stars during a normal night that you can easily get lost and not recognise even the brightest constellations. The Milky Way, especially the winter portion (that is summer for northern hemisphere observers) is so bright that can illuminate the ground. The brightest planets, like Venus and Jupiter, and even the brightest stars, like Sirius, cast an obvious shadow on the ground. In Atacama desert, then, we can observe the real Universe, we can think about the big questions of our lives and we can feel part of the Cosmos. ATacama At Night (ATAN) is a photographic projec...