Canary sky as he had never seen before - The World

Photographer Daniel Lopez is enjoying the night Canary Islands, but in his own way: doing duty for hours at the most famous landscapes of the islands to take photos of their starry sky, so overwhelming that have already been chosen image 18 times a day by NASA .

engineer Paterna del Campo (Huelva) eight years ago left his job in Seville to accept a job at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) as telescopic technical operations at the Observatorio del Teide, led by its childhood passion for everything that meant looking at the sky.

His work in Tenerife summit allowed him to use the IAC telescopes to take pictures of the space that you have become a celebrity in the world of astronomy, but also revealed that he the most spectacular images heaven were before their eyes , your camera could portray as rarely seen the Milky Way or the Orion Nebula without using magnification. I just needed to know where to aim.

Elder Museum of Science of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria forth from his job this week: a selection of the most shocking pictures and videos this astrophotographer has taken in the last four years and has long diffuses through the web Heaven Canaries, where it has millions of visitors.

As the video that accompanies this story, Daniel Lopez images exhibit the Milky Way in all its splendor color across the sky, the circular outline of the stars in its rotation around the polar star behind some tajinastes Tenerife Pine or mythical Cassandra Gran Canaria-in fact, the Earth is rotating, or even the Andromeda Galaxy, located no less than 2.5 million light years .

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a almond tree on the night of La Palma, in an image in which petals and stars are confused, or the majestic Teide and stars reflected as in a mirror on a puddle Ucanca Plains, dry most of the year.

Daniel López states that Canary is only to take such images because its skies are clear and abundant light pollution free places, not only in the mountains, but also on the coast as in Fuencaliente (La Palma).

His presentation will rotate in the coming months by the different islands of the archipelago and has been claimed by some for its spectacular museums and universities of the peninsula.