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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Панорама северного зимнего неба http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1583466/eng |
Credit & Copyright: Tomas Slovinsky
Explanation:
What stars shine in Earth's northern hemisphere during winter?
The featured image highlights a number of
bright stars visible earlier this month.
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.
Famous stars visible in the picture include
Castor & Pollux
toward the southeast on the left,
Sirius just over the horizon toward the south,
Capella
just over the arch of the
Milky Way Galaxy toward the west, and
Polaris toward the north on the right.
Captured by coincidence
is a
meteor on the far left.
In the foreground is the
Museum of the Orava Village in
Zuberec,
Slovakia.
This
village recreates rural life
in the region hundreds of years ago,
while the image captures a timeless sky surely familar to village residents, a
sky also shared with northern residents around the
world.
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.