Gifted astrophotographer Stéphane Guisard -- whose Easter Island picture garnered him the #3 spot in my Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2009 -- has done it again. He just published this amazing picture of star trails, but it's not like one you've ever seen:
[Click to see a bigger, cleaner pic, and yes, you really want to!] This astonishing picture shows the entire sky from horizon to horizon with the help of a wide angle lens (to help orient you, south is to the left, north to the right, west at the bottom, and east is at the top). It was taken on a volcano called Chimborazo, which is in Ecuador. The volcano has a latitude of 1.5° south, so it sits almost exactly on the Equator [Update: Stéphane sent me a note that he has been to this volcano before, and has an amazing Milky Way picture taken from ...
