Jeff Dai, who has contributed many wonderful photos to EarthSky, wrote:
I’m living at Beijing now. The capital city of China is amazing without haze. Yesterday [December 6], I shot at Jiaolou Tower in the Forbidden City.
The Forbidden City, a world heritage site today, served as the home of emperors and their households, and was the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government, for almost 500 years.
See an ancient Chinese map of Earth’s northern sky, part of the Dunhuang Star Atlas, from APOD
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