Taking Away Photos ❘ lookphotos

A scene looking west on January 16, 2015 but with a field stretching up to and beyond the zenith overhead, taking in the Zodiacal Light stretching up to the Pleiades at upper left. Just below the Pleiades is green Comet Lovejoy, with its faint ion tail pointing away from the Sun along the same plane as the Zodiacal Light, as it should. Ion tails always point directly away from the Sun, as they are blown out by the solar wind. Comet Lovejoy was crossing the ecliptic this night, as it heads north in its orbit traveling almost perpendicular to the ecliptic plane.

13899168 - A scene looking west on January 16, 2015 but with a field stretching up to and beyond the zenith overhead, taking in the Zodiacal Light stretching up to the Pleiades at upper left. Just below the Pleiades is green Comet Lovejoy, with its faint ion tail pointing away from the Sun along the same plane as the Zodiacal Light, as it should. Ion tails always point directly away from the Sun, as they are blown out by the solar wind. Comet Lovejoy was crossing the ecliptic this night, as it heads north in its orbit traveling almost perpendicular to the ecliptic plane.

An African fish eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) with dangling legs as it lifts its wings taking off from a dead branch and flies away from the tree on the savannah,Chobe National Park,Chobe,Botswana

13986822 - An African fish eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) with dangling legs as it lifts its wings taking off from a dead branch and flies away from the tree on the savannah,Chobe National Park,Chobe,Botswana

71066951 - Group gray geese taking off from a lake and flying away, Linum in Brandenburg, north of Berlin, Germany

71110718 - A climber preparing the smooth granite, taking away all the magnesium left by the others climbers. Masino Valley Lombardy Italy Europe