The Dark Rift over the Grand Canyon
by Don Mercer
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The Dark Rift over the Grand Canyon
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Don Mercer
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Photograph - Photograph
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In September 2016, I had a wonderful trip white water rafting on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. The primary purpose of my trip was to capture some nightscape images. This one was shot from the water's edge below our campsite, looking across the river and up at a dazzling Milky Way.
This phenomenon is known as the Dark Rift, and is also termed the Great Rift, Dark Side, and Dark River. This darkened "lane," or void, as it appears to the eye and camera, is created by "a series of overlapping, non-luminous, molecular dust clouds ... " [Source: Wikepedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Rift_(astronomy)]
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October 28th, 2016
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