Shooting the sky in Ladakh
1 year, 7 months ago

Shooting the sky in Ladakh

Live Mint  

Hello darkness, my old friend/ I’ve come to talk with you again. For darkness would be my one true friend when it came to photographing the Milky Way, something I had wanted to do since I first visited Ladakh in the early 2000s. Zangla is a little village where people are happy to sleep early; it is usually “lights out” by 9pm and this suited us well because that was the day of the new moon, and the Milky Way would be visible from 7.50pm to 3.24am. Our final stop in this “shoot the sky” sojourn was Hanle, 345km south of Nubra, located in an area that has been designated India’s first Dark Sky Reserve. On 24 June, the moon set at 11pm and the Milky Way shone in the sky for seven and a half hours, from 8pm to 3.30am.

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