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Showery weather at Bournda Beach looking north. This year the beach in the news when the foot of missing alleged con-woman, Meissa Caddick, was found. au.news.yahoo.com/disturbing-new-details-after-melissa-ca... Described in the city media as “an isolated beach” but not thought of in this manner by people like myself, who live nearby. “Quiet” is a better description! Bournda National Park Far South Coast NSW.

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Hunters Chapel by skypointer

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September is a special month for astrophotography in the mid northern lattitudes. The memories of the warm summer nights are still fresh and we have the last chance to capture the Dark Horse and the Milky Way core for a few hours in the evening. Winter is approaching fast though and the rise of Orion, the hunter, in the morning hours is an unmistakable sign for this. Between the MW core and Orion, Cygnus is riding high in the sky, giving even more options for nightscape compositions.

During a perfect night out with Benjamin Barakat, we had the chance to shoot this little chapel from different angles, taking advantage of all possible astronomical alignments. My favorite capture is this one with Orion, Barnards Loop, Rosette Nebula, Meissas nebulosity, the Hayades, the Pleiades, California Nebula and Mars shining brightly on the upper right.

Prints available: ralf-rohner.pixels.com

EXIF

Canon EOS 6D astro modified

Tamron 15-30mm f2.8

iOptron SkyTracker

Low Level Lighting

Sky:

12 x 60s @ ISO 3200, tracked

Foreground:

9 x 60s @ ISO6400

Winter Bounty by skypointer

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My first post of the year is one of the most challanging panoramas I shot so far. It is my first tracked panorama shot at 70mm focal length and was captured in one of my favorite places, at the Tschuggen Observatory in Arosa, Switzerland. Despite the rather narrow final field of view, it consists of 18 panels for the foreground and 4 panels for the sky.

Capturing the set of exposures in freezing-25°C was quite an ordeal for me and my equipment. Eyeballing the overlap and moving the camera on my frozen up ballhead and with my numb fingers proved almost impossible and these equipment problems made my buy a good panorama head a few weeks later…

Processing the panorama proved to be tough on my computer as well. The photoshop file of the 200 megapixel panorama has whopping 31GB, but the resolution and detail I recorded in the sky is amazing.

The Orion, Runnning Man, Flame and Horsehead nebulas are beautifully resolved and the hydrogen alpha nebulosities in the region are standing out nicely: Barnards Loop, the Meissa Region, the Rosette Nebula, the Seagull Nebula and the Christmas Tree Cluster are really popping.

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EXIF

Canon EOS 6D astro modified

Canon EF 24-70mm f/28 L

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Low Level Lighting

Sky

4 panels, each a stack of 9 x 60s @ISO1600, tracked

Foreground

18 panels of 60s @ISO1600

Fire and Ice by skypointer

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My main reason for hiking to this beautiful lake in the Alpstein moutains of Switzerland, was the close-up 'deepscape' from my last post, but of course I could not resist to cature the beauty of this place in a more traditional way too.

As the lake was starting to freeze, the reflection was not as perfect as I hoped, but I like how the fiery reds in the sky are contrasting the freezing landscape below.

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EXIF

Canon EOS 6D astro modified

Samyang 24mm f/1.4 @ f/2

iOptron SkyTracker

Sky:

11 x 50s @ ISO1600, tracked

Foreground:

10 x 90s @ ISO1600

Like a Prayer by skypointer

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The winter Milky Way is arching over a chapel in the Swiss Alps, while dense fog is covering the lower parts of Switzerland and thus helps reducing light pollution.

The sky is dotted with red hydrogen emission nebulas, especially in the constellation Orion and our galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy, is dominating the sky in the upper right of the image.

In the center, just below the Pleiades, Gegenschein, sunlight that is backscattered on interstellar dust is brightening the night sky.

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EXIF

19 panel panorama with over 2hrs total exposure time.

Canon EOS 6D, astro-modified

Samyang 24mm f/1.4

iOptron Skytracker Pro

Low Level Lighting

Sky:

13 panels, each a stack of 5 x 60s @ ISO1600 f/2.4

Foreground:

6 panels, each a stack of 5x 120s @ ISO1600 f/2.8

3 x 3 eyes by Sean Fugazi

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Desert Vibes by skypointer

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I am fascinated by desert landscapes. This is probably because there are no deserts in my home country Switzerland. The rock structures, the flora and fauna just look alien to my eyes and the low horizon is a sight I only get on a mountain peak at home.

I therefore enjoyed my opportunity to visit the desert in Joshua Tree NP in late November and tried to make the best from the two short evenings before moonrise.

Fortunately, the sky in JTNP is very dark towards the East, which allowed me to capture some amazing detail in the rising constellation Orion.

Higher up, the Flaming Star and California Nebulae colorize the Winter Milky Way. Interstellar dust is looming within the starry band and the welcome sight of the Gegenschein between the Pleiades and Hyades bears witness to the good sky quality.

EXIF

Canon EOS Ra

Sigma 28mm f/1.4

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Sky:

3 panel panorama, each a stack of 10x 60s @ ISO800, f/2

Foreground:

Single exposure of 5s @ ISO100, f/11 during blue hour

The Sky Giants - February 2024 by Chad Baxter

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Both can be seen with the naked eye -

One is tall, made of steel, and towers 120 feet into the sky.

The other giant is the Orion constellation. From it's head (the multi-star known as Meissa) to it's bottom left foot (the Supergiant star known as Saiph), is a mere 497 light years apart, or roughly 15,426,454,079,315,755,581 (quintillion) more feet than the tower is tall. Orion's left shoulder, the star known as Betelgeuse, measures more than 700 million miles across and if it were set where our own Sun is, it would engulf every planet up to and including Jupiter. Well, as they say - it's all relative, right?

Taken from a set of railroad tracks in Crete, Illinois - the exact location can be seen here:

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Comet ZTF in Auriga (Feb 8, 2023) by Alan Dyer

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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) in the constellation of Auriga on the night of Feb 8, 2023. The comet is the small cyan-coloured glow above centre. It was technically in Auriga but heading south into Taurus and in front of the Taurus Dark Clouds here at centre. Mars is the bright orange object right of centre.

At right are the Pleiades and Hyades star clusters, the latter with reddish Aldebaran. Other Messier-catalogue star clusters are in the frame: M36, M37 and M38 in Auriga and M35 in Gemini. The red emission nebulas in this part of the Milky Way also stand out, notably the California Nebula, NGC 1499, at top in Perseus, and the Flaming Star Nebula, IC 405, in Auriga at centre. At bottom is the large faint nebula around Lambda Orionis, or Meissa, in Orion. Capella is at top; Castor and Pollux are at left.

This is a stack of 4 x 1-minute exposures at ISO 1600 with the red-sensitive AstroGear modified Canon R and with the RF28-70mm lens at f/2.8 and 28mm. This is one segment of a Milky Way panorama taken this night, from Dinosaur Provincial Park, using the Star Adventurer tracker.

Shelter by skypointer

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The old hospice at the Simplon Pass, also known as the Alter Spittel, was built by Kaspar Stockalper around 1650.

Stockalper was a businessman who shaped the Simplon Pass and the entire region. Among other things, he had trade relations with Italy and France, and he set up the courier service with horse mail over the Simplon Pass between Milan and Geneva in 1640.

The old hospice is a five-storey building made of solid granite. It served as a shelter for travelers, goods, and pack animals. At that time, a mule track led over the Simplon Pass. Some of it is still accessible today. The path is known today as the Stockalperweg.

Prints available: ralf-rohner.pixels.com

EXIF

Canon EOS Ra

Sigma 28mm f/1.4 @ f/2

IDAS NBZ filter

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Sky:

Panorama of 2 panels, each a stack of 10 x 60s @ ISO800 unfiltered + 5 x 120s @ ISO3200 with the NBZ filter

Foreground:

Single exposure of 30s @ ISO800

Guatemala - Nature / Naturaleza by Galeon Fotografia

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Constelación de Orión

Alien World by skypointer

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During my September visit to the Trona Pinnacles, the setting quarter moon was preventing us from getting a clean shot of the Milky Way core. When the sky finally was fully dark, we soon decided to change our position and try to capture the Winter Milky Way over one of our favorite rock formations.

Some photographers call this section the 'bad' side of the Milky Way. In my opinion, they could not be more wrong. While it is a lot darker and therefore harder to capture than the region around the galactic core, the countless red nebulas and open star clusters make it one of the most colorful and interesting parts of the northern hemisphere sky.

Some of the better known deep sky objects visible are (top down):

- Double Cluster

- Heart and Soul Nebula

- California Nebula

- Pleiades

- Hyades

- Flaming Star Nebula

- Meissa Region

- Barnards Loop

- Orion Nebula

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EXIF

Canon EOS 6D astro modified

Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Low Level Lighting

Sky:

8 x 60s @ISO3200

Foreground:

5 x 60s @ISO3200

Torri ta Kenuna II by Nicholas Abela

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A photo of the Torri ta Kenuna. This is the same one here:

www.flickr.com/photos/nicholasabela/4230431251/

However, this picture was taken during a national blackout. It is a very long exposure along with a Speedlite on full power.

I was amazed with the number of stars visible during a power cut. Light pollution was minimal at this time.

Please View Large On Black :)

Nicholas Abela 2010

Credit goes to Joseph Caruana for the tagging of the stars. Thanks jo!

Homer’s ORION Over Moonlit Meteora, Greece by ioannis_papachristos

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The winter constellation of ORION was captured rising above Meteora, Greece, on January 20, 2021 (at 19:18’ hrs). The first quarter Moon was high up in the sky and cast light on the rock formations.

Orion’s distinctive features, visible in the shot:

—Orion’s BELT (stars: δ-Delta, ε-Epsilon & ζ-Zeta Orionis)

—Orion’s SWORD (with the “Great Orion NEBULA” or M42)

—The two SUPERGIANTS (the massive M-type red supergiant BETELGEUSE or α-Alpha Orionis and the B-type blue supergiant RIGEL or β-Beta Orionis)

—Orion’s SHIELD (six π-Pi stars)

Aldebaran (α-Alpha Tauri) is also marked, for reference. The rock formation above which Orion rose is 2,011 ft (613 m) high and is called “Platys Lithos.” METEORA is the name of the group comprising many impressive and lofty rock formations: The height of the sandstone megaliths ranges between 1,000-2,067 ft (300-630 m). The rock masses were formed 60 million years ago, are geologically unique and listed in UNESCO world heritage sites.

In Greek MYTHOLOGY Orion was a gigantic, supernaturally strong hunter, son of Euryale and Poseidon (Neptune), god of the sea. Orion was hunting partner of goddess Diana.

In Homer’s ODYSSEY, Odysseus (Ulysses) navigated by the guidance of stars’ constellations (he navigated eastwards by keeping Pleiades, Boötes, Ursa Major and Orion to his left). This mention of Orion as a NAVIGATIONAL AID for mariners is most impressing in the ancient text of Homer’s poetry (book 5, 270-279), instead of a mere mention of mythology heroes!

Since POETRY has been a soothing elixir for modern man’s stress, here come Homer’s Original and classical poem lines mentioning Orion as a navigational aid (pls see translation in comments below):

…αὐτὰρ ὁ πηδαλίῳ ἰθύνετο τεχνηέντως

ἥμενος, οὐδέ οἱ ὕπνος ἐπὶ βλεφάροισιν ἔπιπτεν

Πληιάδας τ᾿ ἐσορῶντι καὶ ὀψὲ δύοντα Βοώτην

Ἄρκτον θ᾿, ἣν καὶ ἄμαξαν ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσιν,

ἥ τ᾿ αὐτοῦ στρέφεται καί τ᾿ Ὠρίωνα δοκεύει,

οἴη δ᾿ ἄμμορός ἐστι λοετρῶν Ὠκεανοῖο:

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ποντοπορευέμεναι ἐπ᾿ ἀριστερὰ χειρὸς ἔχοντα.

ἑπτὰ δὲ καὶ δέκα μὲν πλέεν ἤματα ποντοπορεύων,

ὀκτωκαιδεκάτῃ δ᾿ ἐφάνη ὄρεα σκιόεντα…

—Ὅμηρος [ Ὀδύσσεια, ε, 270–279 ]

📷 SETTINGS:

Canon EOS RP

Sigma 24MM F1.4 DG HSM Art

ISO 800 - f/1.8 - 6 sec × 37 light frames (stacked by Starry Landscape Stacker, Min Hor Noise algorithm).

The Astrophotographers Winter Wonderland by skypointer

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At this time of the year, many nightscapers pack away their cameras and say that the Milky Way season is over. They couldn’t be more wrong! The core season might be over, but the winter Milky Way is visible all night and makes an excellent photographic target.

With its abundance in hydrogen emission nebulas, the "bad side" of the Milky Way is actually more colorful than its brighter summer counterpart, especially when captured with an astro-modified camera.

Orion is a real gem: The sword is dominated by the famous Orion Nebula and the nearby Running Man Nebula. Both are glowing in red Hydrogen and blue Oxygen light. Orion’s belt harbors the Horsehead Nebula, a dark dust cloud that is silhouetted against another deep red nebulosity (IC 434) and right next to it, the bright Flame Nebula shares the same field of view.

This whole complex is surrounded by the elusive Barnard’s Loop an interstellar gas cloud that is ionized by the stars inside the Orion Nebula.

Another prominent part of the Orion’s nebulosity, is a ring around Lambda Orionis (Meissa). It measures about 12 degrees across and probably is the remains of a supernova explosion, now ionized by the ultraviolet radiation from Meissa itself and some of the surrounding hot stars.

Those blessed with dark skies might even be able to record the very elusive Witch Head Nebula, an extremely faint reflection nebula, believed to be an ancient supernova remnant or gas cloud, illuminated by the nearby supergiant star Rigel.

Of course there is not only Orion. Other prominent Hydrogen emission Nebulas are the Rosette Nebula in the constellation Monoceros, the Seagull Nebula near Canis Major, the California Nebula in Perseus, Cassiopeia’s Heart and Soul Nebulas or The Elephant Trunk Nebula in Cepheus.

The whole winter Milky Way is dotted with open star clusters. Some are naked eye objects like the Pleiades, the Hyades, the Beehive Cluster or the Double Cluster and many of them are part of the famous Messier Catalogue (e.g. M34 – M38, M44 –M48, M67). Some of these open clusters are surrounded by gas clouds and the ionizing radiation from their stars powers many of the emission nebulas mentioned above.

Furthermore, autumn and winter is galaxy time. Our galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy, is the most prominent example, but there are many more, like the Triangulum Galaxy (M33), pictured here to the east of Andromeda.

Fed up with deep sky objects? Then you might like this: Under dark skies you might be able to observe the gegenschein. The backscatter of sunlight by interplanetary dust causes this optical phenomenon. It forms a slightly more luminous, oval glow directly opposite the Sun within the band of the luminous zodiacal light. The intensity of the gegenschein is relatively enhanced, because each dust particle is seen in full phase.

Even closer to home, you might be able to see meteors (from the Leonids or the Alpha Monocerotids in November or the famous Geminids in December) burning up in earth’s atmosphere and of course you might also be able to capture some colorful airglow.

For an unspoiled view of this scene check my unlabeled version: flic.kr/p/2c7twYL

Meissa_Annotated by Raul Villaverde

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Orion by Guillermo Scheidereiter

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“Question me then, my Oinos, freely and without fear. Come! we will leave to the left the loud harmony of the Pleiades, and swoop outward from the throne into the starry meadows beyond Orion, where, for pansies and violets, and heart's—ease, are the beds of the triplicate and triple—tinted suns.”

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are in the southern hemisphere you will immediately recognize the Orion Constellation in this very modest image and, if you are in the northern hemisphere, you will surely say: "Orion, the hunter, with his head down." The truth is that, wherever you are, you will agree that Orion is one of the most beautiful constellations in the sky. In my childhood I was taught to see it as a sword made of precious stones and, since then, I always saw it that way: the M42 nebula is the hilt, the Three Marys - Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka -, the guard of the sword and the group of stars that forms the head of the hunter, down in the image, where the star Meissa, the tip of the sword's blade, is located.

This constellation has magnificent treasures, such as the IC 434 nebula, which, in contrast, allows us to see the dark Horsehead nebula, the emission nebula NGC 2024 (known as the Flame nebula), the Witch's Head (IC 2118) and the queen of the constellation, M42 (just to name a few of the best known). Do you want to take on the challenge of finding them in the image? Four beautiful stars complete the dazzling scene: Rigel (the brightest), Bellatrix, Betelgeuse (the orange star of the constellation) and Saiph.

I captured this simple image with my Nikon D5600 camera, Nikon 18-55mm lens, at 45mm, f/5.6, Sky-Watcher EQ3 equatorial mount. The capture software was digiCamControl, stacked with Siril and a very basic preprocessing with GraXpert and Siril. In the end, very slight post-processing in Gimp.

January 30, 2024. Zona rural, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina.

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Meissa by Raul Villaverde

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Orion by Ben Wightman

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4x stacked 30 second exposures, roughly edited to make the constellation stand out

I've never done deep sky images before, so I was delighted to find nebulae can be seen at 50mm

For my own learning, the named stars are:

Head - Meissa

Shoulders - Betelgeuse and Bellatrix

Belt - Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka

Feet - Saiph and Rigel

Gigantische Nacht by ReppiX

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Stars by Martin Barretto

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Tomada desde el observatorio Eta Carinae en Villa Serrana.

La estrella mas brillante es Sirio y está ubicada arriba la derecha de la imagen.

Cielo Nocturno by José Manuel Romero

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MEISSA Canon Intes f6 by Massimo cenedese

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Meissa soon FA by Iuliania

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Head of a Giant by DeepSkyColors

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Can you recognize this cloud of glowing hydrogen? That's the "head" of Orion... Not the belt area but the triangle that resembles the hunter's shoulders and head. The bright orange star on the bottom left is Betelgeuse, a dying red supergiant star. Bellatrix, a blue giant, is the one on the right, and somewhere near the center, Meissa, another hot blue giant.

Data from my images Clouds of Orion + Orion's Blush.

Betelgeuse, Meissa (lambda Orionis), Bellatrix + Sh2-264 by Giuseppe Donatiello

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Betelgeuse, Meissa (lambda Orionis), Bellatrix + Sh2-264

Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello

Meissa (or Heka) at about 1,100 light-years is the star representing the head of Orion.

Sharpless 264 is a molecular cloud and H II region in the northern region in the constellation of Orion.

Jupiter 85mm f/2 + Canon EOS 4000D @3200/6400 ISO H-alpha filtered

Meissa-Limited by Ruriko Bracken

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The Wonders of the Winter Sky by Alan Dyer

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A collage of the northern hemisphere winter sky, with a background mosaic of the sky, surrounded by telephoto lens close-ups of starfields in that sky, each containing bright star clusters and nebulas along and around the Milky Way. The star clusters are all bright and obvious in binoculars, if not to the naked eye, but the nebulas are all faint and show up only in long exposure photos. The exception is the bright Orion Nebula at lower right â it can be seen with the naked eye and is glorious in a telescope.

The background mosaic is made of 8 segments, in two columns of 4 rows, with generous overlap. Each segment was made of 4 x 2.5-minute exposures stacked with mean combine stack mode to reduce noise, plus 2 x 2.5-minute exposures taken through the Kenko Softon filter layered in with Lighten belnd mode to add the star glows. Each segment was shot at f/2.8 with the original 35mm Canon L-series lens and the filter-modified (by Hutech) Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600, riding on the iOptron Sky-Tracker. All stacking and stitching in Photoshop CC 2015. The soft diffusion filter helps bring out the star colours in this area of sky rich in brilliant giant stars. I shot the segments on a very clear night on December 5, 2015 from the Quailway Cottage at Portal, Arizona.

The close-ups are each stacks of 3-minute exposures with a 200mm f/2.8 telephoto lens and the filter-modified Canon 5D Mark II at ISO 800. Taken in January 2019 from home, using a Fornax Lightrack II tracker.

Winter Milky Way (Labeled) by skypointer

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Winter Milky Way in the constellations Canis Major, Monoceros, Orion, Gemini, Taurus, Capella and Perseus.

Several sveral deep sky objects are visible and labeled.

For the unlabeled version check flic.kr/p/FtmzDK

Hutech modified Canon EOS 6D

Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8

15x60s @ ISO1600

iOptron Skytracker

Stacking with fitswork

Meissa by Iuliania

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Homer’s ORION Over Moonlit Meteora, Greece MARKED by ioannis_papachristos

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The winter constellation of ORION was captured rising above Meteora, Greece, on January 20, 2021 (at 19:18’ hrs). The first quarter Moon was high up in the sky and cast light on the rock formations.

Orion’s distinctive features, visible in the shot:

—Orion’s BELT (stars: δ-Delta, ε-Epsilon & ζ-Zeta Orionis)

—Orion’s SWORD (with the “Great Orion NEBULA” or M42)

—The two SUPERGIANTS (the massive M-type red supergiant BETELGEUSE or α-Alpha Orionis and the B-type blue supergiant RIGEL or β-Beta Orionis)

—Orion’s SHIELD (six π-Pi stars)

Aldebaran (α-Alpha Tauri) is also marked, for reference. The rock formation above which Orion rose is 2,011 ft (613 m) high and is called “Platys Lithos.” METEORA is the name of the group comprising many impressive and lofty rock formations: The height of the sandstone megaliths ranges between 1,000-2,067 ft (300-630 m). The rock masses were formed 60 million years ago, are geologically unique and listed in UNESCO world heritage sites.

In Greek MYTHOLOGY Orion was a gigantic, supernaturally strong hunter, son of Euryale and Poseidon (Neptune), god of the sea. Orion was hunting partner of goddess Diana.

In Homer’s ODYSSEY, Odysseus (Ulysses) navigated by the guidance of stars’ constellations (he navigated eastwards by keeping Pleiades, Boötes, Ursa Major and Orion to his left). This mention of Orion as a NAVIGATIONAL AID for mariners is most impressing in the ancient text of Homer’s poetry (book 5, 270-279), instead of a mere mention of mythology heroes!

Since POETRY has been a soothing elixir for modern man’s stress, here come Homer’s Original and classical poem lines mentioning Orion as a navigational aid (pls see translation in comments below):

…αὐτὰρ ὁ πηδαλίῳ ἰθύνετο τεχνηέντως

ἥμενος, οὐδέ οἱ ὕπνος ἐπὶ βλεφάροισιν ἔπιπτεν

Πληιάδας τ᾿ ἐσορῶντι καὶ ὀψὲ δύοντα Βοώτην

Ἄρκτον θ᾿, ἣν καὶ ἄμαξαν ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσιν,

ἥ τ᾿ αὐτοῦ στρέφεται καί τ᾿ Ὠρίωνα δοκεύει,

οἴη δ᾿ ἄμμορός ἐστι λοετρῶν Ὠκεανοῖο:

τὴν γὰρ δή μιν ἄνωγε Καλυψώ, δῖα θεάων,

ποντοπορευέμεναι ἐπ᾿ ἀριστερὰ χειρὸς ἔχοντα.

ἑπτὰ δὲ καὶ δέκα μὲν πλέεν ἤματα ποντοπορεύων,

ὀκτωκαιδεκάτῃ δ᾿ ἐφάνη ὄρεα σκιόεντα…

—Ὅμηρος [ Ὀδύσσεια, ε, 270–279 ]

📷 SETTINGS:

Canon EOS RP

Sigma 24MM F1.4 DG HSM Art

ISO 800 - f/1.8 - 6 sec × 37 light frames (stacked by Starry Landscape Stacker, Min Hor Noise algorithm).

. white noise in black space by Tumra Needi

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Orion in Hydrogen Alpha Light by Alan Dyer

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A portrait of the constellation of Orion taken in monochrome in the deep red light of the hydrogen-alpha wavelength using a narrowband filter, to emphasize the vast clouds of interstellar gas within and around Orion.

The Orion Nebula is the bright object at lower centre; the Horsehead Nebula below the Belt of Orion is near centre; the bright object at upper left is the Rosette Nebula in Monoceros. The large circular glow at top around the head of Orion is Sharpless 2-264, the Lambda Orionis nebula. The curving arc on our left side of Orion is Sharpless 2-276, aka Barnard's Loop.

This is a stack of 24 x 4-minute exposures with the red-sensitive Canon Ra camera at ISO 1600 shooting through the Canon RF28-70mm lens at 50mm and wide open at f/2. The filter was the Astronomik 12nm Ha clip-in filter. This was taken Feb 10, 2022 in bright moonlight with the waxing gibbous Moon just off frame at top, creating some challenging gradients.

Orion over Tower Bridge by Daniel Coyle

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Orion over Tower Bridge last week. Not quite as bright as over Dundee (www.flickr.com/photos/danielcoyle/11150615834/) but surprising to see the stars over central London.

HMS Belfast is on the other side of the river, in front of City Hall and Hay's Galleria.

I have played around in Photoshop with this one, but again am unsure of the sky, it appears to me to have gone grainy again.

Meissa by Iuliania

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Winter Is Here by Brian Wilson

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"I think the night is more alive and even more richly coloured than the day. . . . If only one pays attention to it, one sees that certain stars are citron yellow, while others have a pink glow or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expiating on this theme, it should be clear that putting little white dots on a blue-black surface is not enough."

Vincent Van Gogh

The hunter is rising in the Autumn night sky, heralding the imminent arrival of Winter. Sometimes having a hazy night helps accentuate the brightness and colour of stars. Here we see the Constellation Orion rising through the cloudy, autumnal colour on the horizon, with Meissa, Bellatrix and Betelgeuse showing their colours.

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