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Constellations from Canis Major to Perseus

author: L.Laveder/Novapix

reference: a-cst81-00012

Image Size 300 DPI: 30 * 89 cm

The light of the bright Sirius (the brightest star in the sky) is scattered by the rest of contrails. Above are from bottom to the top Orion, facing the Taurus (with Mars visible in one of its horns) and Perseus. September 12 2007. Constellations mythological forms from "Uranographia" star atlas by Hevelius (1690) have been added.

Keywords for this photo:

2007 - ALDEBARAN - ASTRONOMY - CANIS MAJOR - CELESTIAL ATLAS - CONSTELLATION - CONTRAIL - DOUBLE CLUSTER - HEVELIUS JOHANNES - HORIZON - HYADES - LANDSCAPE - LIGHT POLLUTION - MARS - NGC 869 - NGC 884 - NIGHT - OPEN CLUSTER - ORION - PANORAMA - PERSEUS - PLANET - PLEIADES - POSTER - SIRIUS - STAR - STAR CLUSTER - STARRY SKY - TAURUS - ZODIAC -