Guillermo_Scheidereiter
Sirius
The star Sirius is a beacon in the dark night. It looks like a mother of pearl that Poseidon himself was in charge of cultivating and polishing to light the way for the intrepid sailors who cross the expanse of its seas.
Sirius is the brightest star in the sky visible from Earth, reaching a magnitude of -1.09. Located in the constellation of Canis Major, Alpha Canis Majoris (one of its official names), it is 8.60 light years away from us and forms an amazing double system, where its companion is very difficult to observe, since it is a white dwarf of magnitude 8.44. In this modest image, Sirius is accompanied to the left by the beautiful open cluster Messier 41 (M 41), with a small red star at its center. Below to the left of Sirius, three red-toned stars stand out. These are the beautiful Nu 1, Nu 2 and Nu 3 Canis Majoris.
Around you, you can see a sea of stars and there is a lot to say about them. I'll just say that when I was a kid, I used to ask my mom how many stars there were. While we looked at the dark sky of country nights, with great grace and mischief he answered me "sin cuenta" which, in Spanish, means that it is not possible to count and is pronounced the same as "cincuenta", which in English is fifty. So I, with a lot of effort and taking care not to get lost and count the same star twice, began the task of counting the fifty stars in that immense sky. At my young age, I knew that if I could get past that number, I would be ready to refute my mother's argument. In the end, I was contemplating her beautiful face her, barely illuminated by that immense starry sky.
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I captured this photo with my old Nikon 75-150 lens, from the 1980s, at 100mm and my Nikon D5600 camera. 8.40 minute integration, Iso 1000. Processed with DeepSkyStacker, Siril and Gimp.
Rural area, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina. 30-03-2023, 23:09 hs.
Sirius
The star Sirius is a beacon in the dark night. It looks like a mother of pearl that Poseidon himself was in charge of cultivating and polishing to light the way for the intrepid sailors who cross the expanse of its seas.
Sirius is the brightest star in the sky visible from Earth, reaching a magnitude of -1.09. Located in the constellation of Canis Major, Alpha Canis Majoris (one of its official names), it is 8.60 light years away from us and forms an amazing double system, where its companion is very difficult to observe, since it is a white dwarf of magnitude 8.44. In this modest image, Sirius is accompanied to the left by the beautiful open cluster Messier 41 (M 41), with a small red star at its center. Below to the left of Sirius, three red-toned stars stand out. These are the beautiful Nu 1, Nu 2 and Nu 3 Canis Majoris.
Around you, you can see a sea of stars and there is a lot to say about them. I'll just say that when I was a kid, I used to ask my mom how many stars there were. While we looked at the dark sky of country nights, with great grace and mischief he answered me "sin cuenta" which, in Spanish, means that it is not possible to count and is pronounced the same as "cincuenta", which in English is fifty. So I, with a lot of effort and taking care not to get lost and count the same star twice, began the task of counting the fifty stars in that immense sky. At my young age, I knew that if I could get past that number, I would be ready to refute my mother's argument. In the end, I was contemplating her beautiful face her, barely illuminated by that immense starry sky.
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I captured this photo with my old Nikon 75-150 lens, from the 1980s, at 100mm and my Nikon D5600 camera. 8.40 minute integration, Iso 1000. Processed with DeepSkyStacker, Siril and Gimp.
Rural area, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina. 30-03-2023, 23:09 hs.