Milky Way above Inici Castle (Mario Lauriano)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Scorpius (Sco) · Contains: Extremely wide field

Milky Way above Inici Castle

The castle of Inici is a castle that rises on the south side of Mount Inici in Val di Mazara, in the locality of Inici, in the territory of the municipality of Castellammare del Golfo. In the 16th century it was owned by the Sanclemente, barons of Inici. Still in 1960 the huge complex of the castle was still inhabited; in the 1961 census there were in fact about fifty inhabitants and the castle, divided as it is into two courtyards, served somewhat as the center of the district which, in the census of the same year, had about 400 inhabitants. In the castle were the post office, the police station and the school. The 1968 earthquake seriously damaged the entire structure which in the following years experienced a period of growing abandonment which led, in 1998, to the collapse of the medieval tower.

A meteor is visible in the upper right corner.

This is a composition of two images: one for the sky (f/2, 800 ISO, 30s tracked with minitrack LX4) and one for landscape (f/2, 800 ISO, 30s).

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