13 August 2027 · 2:00 am UTC−7
Prospect Point lookout, Stanley Park
By two in the morning the city has quietened, and from the Prospect Point lookout the sky above the bridge is as dark as the city allows. Around the middle of August the Earth passes through the debris trail of the comet Swift-Tuttle and the Perseid meteors fall, seeming to radiate from the constellation Perseus. Here Perseus lies forty-seven degrees up in the north-east, above the top of the picture, so the meteors trace back to a point outside the frame. In this view the moon is no problem: eighty-six per cent lit, it sets in the south-west at 2:00 am, behind the viewer, and leaves the sky dark. The Milky Way rises from the north-east horizon through Auriga, about twenty-three degrees up.
Along the main cables runs the bridge's own constellation, the necklace: 170 lamps first lit in February 1986 for Expo 86, paid for by the Guinness family, and changed from mercury to LED in 2009.
Milky Way: ESO/S. Brunier, CC BY 4.0 (eso.org/public/images/eso0932a), adapted
Artist's impression · © lionsgatebridge.org
Download as wallpaperDesktop · 4KPhoneMore sizes
Download as a wallpaper
This picture is an artist’s impression: an artistic work, not a photograph.
Free for personal use · © Lions Gate Bridge Museum
Sized for iPhone Duo: inner display 1878 × 2670, outer display 1398 × 2034.
