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APOD: A Night Sky Vista from Sardinia (2020 Oct 21)
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:05 am
by APOD Robot
A Night Sky Vista from Sardinia
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.
Re: APOD: A Night Sky Vista from Sardinia (2020 Oct 21)
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 6:15 am
by rj rl
So where's the Big Dipper?
Re: APOD: A Night Sky Vista from Sardinia (2020 Oct 21)
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:54 am
by Ann
rj rl wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 6:15 am
So where's the Big Dipper?
There is the Big Dipper.
Ann
Re: APOD: A Night Sky Vista from Sardinia (2020 Oct 21)
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:50 am
by ptahhotep
I'll start adding to the list of famous objects visible in the picture with .... The Milky Way!
Re: APOD: A Night Sky Vista from Sardinia (2020 Oct 21)
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:17 am
by rj rl
Oh, not where I looked for it at all
![Laughing :lol2:](./images/smilies/asterisk_laugh.gif)
Re: APOD: A Night Sky Vista from Sardinia (2020 Oct 21)
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:19 pm
by johnnydeep
rj rl wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:17 am
Oh, not where I looked for it at all
Yeah, I was also clueless. After Ann pointed it out, I think i found Polaris and The Little Dipper with a little help from
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/cont ... age%2Fjpeg, but I could be wrong:
![Big and Litter Dipper and More.JPG (62.73 KiB) Viewed 2803 times Big and Little Dipper and More](./download/file.php?id=38099&t=1&sid=1018ca4dddd8ac556a1ddd2447f6874e)
- Big and Little Dipper and More
![Big and Little Dippers.png (871.98 KiB) Viewed 2803 times Big and Little Dipper](./download/file.php?id=38100&t=1&sid=1018ca4dddd8ac556a1ddd2447f6874e)
- Big and Little Dipper
Re: APOD: A Night Sky Vista from Sardinia (2020 Oct 21)
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:21 pm
by Chris Peterson
rj rl wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:17 am
Oh, not where I looked for it at all :lol2:
Northern hemisphere images of the Milky Way are almost always taken facing south, not north.