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                                2020 March 28

                           Stars Trail over Ragusa
                   Image Credit & Copyright: Gianni Tumino

   Explanation: In trying times, stars still trail in the night. Taken on
   March 14, this night skyscape was made by combining 230 exposures each
   15 seconds long to follow the stars' circular paths. The camera was
   fixed to a tripod on an isolated terrace near the center of Ragusa,
   Italy, on the island of Sicily. But the night sky was shared around the
   rotating planet. A friend to celestial navigators and
   astrophotographers alike Polaris, the north star, makes the short
   bright trail near the center of the concentric celestial arcs.

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