NASA chose an image taken by a Slovak for a photo of Christmas Eve on its website. It was taken by photographer Tomáš Slovinský from Zuberec in the Orava region, the Sme daily informed on its website.
NASA chooses photo from Chopok
The image is a 360-degree horizontal-composite panorama of 66 vertical frames taken consecutively with the same camera and from the same location at about 2:30 am.
The brightest stars create the so-called Winter Hexagon.
The featured image highlights a number of bright stars visible earlier this month. (source: Tomáš Slovinský, apod.nasa.gov)
