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Credit & Copyright: Tomöå Slovinskö
Explanation:
How many famous sky objects can you find in this image?
The featured dark sky composite combines over
60 exposures spanning over 220 degrees to create
a veritable menagerie of night sky wonders.
Visible celestial icons include the
Belt of Orion, the
Orion Nebula, the
Andromeda Galaxy, the
California Nebula, and bright stars
Sirius and
Betelgeuse.
You can verify that you found these, if you did, by checking an
annotated version of the image.
A bit harder, though, is finding
Polaris and the
Big Dipper.
Also discernible are several meteors from the Quandrantids meteor shower, red and green
airglow,
and two friends of the astrophotographer.
The picture was captured in January from
Sardinia,
Italy.
You can
see sky wonders in your own
night sky tonight -- including more meteors than usual --
because tonight is near
peak of the yearly Orionids meteor shower.
News:
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A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: night sky
Publications with words: night sky
See also:
- APOD: 2024 September 11 Á A Night Sky over the Tatra Mountains
- APOD: 2023 August 15 Á A Triply Glowing Night Sky over Iceland
- Sunset to Sunrise over the Baltic Sea
- An Artful Sky over Lofoten Islands
- A Furious Sky over Mount Shasta
- Sea and Sky Glows over the Oregon Coast
- Stars and Planets over Portugal