Partly Cloudy Skies Size:Medium - 18" x 12" It is visible only for

It is visible only for a fleeting few seconds before the Earthly crowd below is collectively bathed

This is a view straight up from my backyard

behind some clouds

Within the core of the nebula

Partly Cloudy Skies Size:Medium - 18" x 12" It is visible only forEnveloping our entire Milky Way, are giant clouds of gas and dust (the extent of which has only been known to astronomy for a few decades). They are known as the Galactic Cirrus or IFN (Integrated Flux Nebula). These cloud structures are extraordinarily faint, glowing with only the reflection of the combined starlight from our galaxy within. Because they are hard to see, to photograph them we need one of two things, extraordinarily dark skies or