Posted on 01/31/2024 12:17:30 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: What does Orion rising look like to a camera? During this time of the year, the famous constellation is visible to the southeast just after sunset. From most Earthly locations, Orion's familiar star pattern, highlighted by the three-stars-in-a-row belt stars, rises sideways. An entire section of the night sky that includes Orion was photographed rising above Śnieżka, a mountain on the border between Poland and the Czech Republic. The long duration exposure sequence brings up many faint features including the Orion and Flame Nebulas, both encompassed by the curving Barnard's Loop. The featured wide-angle camera composite also captured night sky icons including the blue Pleiades star cluster at the image top and the red Rosette Nebula to the left of Orion. Famous stars in the frame include Sirius, Betelgeuse, Rigel and Aldebaran. Orion will appear successively higher in the sky at sunset during the coming months.
For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.
IIRC, Sirius is in line with Orion's belt...
...in that pic, where Sirius is identified, it most certainly is not.
What's up with that? Is my memory just bonkers?
I suspect the dog is astray.... or the pic is mislabeled.
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Wow.
Yeah, you’re right. I think that what they labeled as “Sirius” is actually Procyon.
I had to check my SkySafari software.
You took that? Awesome! Can you say what equipment you used?
Fork mounted 10” Schmidt Cassegrain w/6.3 focal reducer, Canon 60D...All on a homemade mount/pier sunk into about 1500 pounds of concrete. Processed raw data using Deep Sky Stacker (DSS) and PSCS6. This was a combined, calibrated and stacked 30 images at 60 second exposure each.
The red ball is the clown nose. His mouth is shaping a large O, and he is tilting his head to his right about 30 degrees.
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