Credit & Copyright: Dong Han
Explanation:
Taken near local midnight, this autumn night's panorama follows the
arch of the Milky Way across the northern horizon from the
High Fens, Eifel Nature Park at the border of Belgium and Germany.
Shift your gaze across
the wetlands from west to east (left to right) and you
can watch stars once more prominent in northern summer give way to
those that will soon dominate northern winter nights.
Setting, wanderer Mars is brightest at the far left,
still shinning against
almost overwhelming
city lights along the southwestern horizon.
Bright stars Altair, Deneb, and Vega form the northern sky's
summer triangle,
straddling the Milky Way left of center.
Part of the
winter hexagon Capella and Aldebaran,
along with the beautiful Pleiades star cluster
shine across the northeastern sky.
The line-of-sight along the hikers boardwalk leads almost directly
toward the Big Dipper, an
all season asterism from these northern
latitudes.
Follow the Big Dipper's pointer stars to
Polaris and the north celestial pole nearly centered above it.
Andromeda, the other large galaxy
in the skyscape, is near the top of the frame.
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