Our cover picture ...
... shows the zodiacal light on 16 August 2012 at 18:44 UTC, photographed from the Tivoli Southern Sky Guest Farm in Namibia, 180km south east of the capital Windhoek. At the top edge of the picture the planet Mars can just be seen, standing between Spica (left) and Saturn (right) and forming a triangle with them. The group of stars at the bottom right is the constellation Coma Berenices. Taken with a Sony DSLR-A200, 25s exposure at 400 ASA. 18mm/f3.5
Photo: André Knöfel, Lindenberg
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