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Taken last year at the Galloway Forest, Orion rising exposed to show the colours of the stars the large looking star is actually Jupiter overexposed due to the shutter speed, the glow is from the Moon below the horizon the orange star almost in line with Jupiter near the right side of the picture is called Betelgeuse, this star is around 650 times the dia of our Sun if it was at the center of our solar system the orbit of Jupiter would be inside it.
Typically colourful decoration at a smaller Buddhist shrine at the Ivolginsky monastery complex near Ulan Ude in the Russian Far East.
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the colour bottles are fom the gift shop of RBG (royal botanical garten).. a same day picture as the previous posting. see the large size for more details ...
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Devotees drying up their sarees at the beach after a holy dip at Gangasagar
Gangasagar pilgrimage and fair, held annually, is the second largest congregation of mankind (more than 0.8 million this year) after the holy Kumbha Mela. Gangasagar finds mention in sacred texts and ancient scriptures of Hindu mythology including the two great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
The river Ganga (Ganges) which originates in the Gangotri glacier in the snow clad high Himalayas, descends down the mountains, reaches the plains, flows through ancient pilgrimage sites, and drains into the Bay of Bengal. A dip in the ocean, where the Ganga meets the sea is considered to be of great religious significance particularly on the Makara Sankranti day (January 14/15), when the sun makes a transition to Capricorn from Sagittarius. Almost a million of Hindu devotees from all over India gather at Gangasagar for a holy dip and perform rituals and prayer (puja) with a belief that it will cleanse and purify their souls.
Images of Bengal, India