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Night Sky

Click any miniature photo to see a larger version (physical size varies between 26 and 58 kB). Copyright: R. Rekola
Some of these photos coincide with those on my other pages.


La Silla '98
The Moon and Jupiter. Taken at ESO / La Silla, Chile, in October 1998.
La Silla '98
The Moon lighting clouds underneath. Taken at ESO / La Silla, Chile, in October 1998.
La Silla '98
The setting Moon. The small spot of light over the Moon is a reflection of the Moon in the optics of the camera. The photo itself was not overexposed but the scanner could not handle the conversion well. I tried to return some of the smoothness and strange reddish tone to the picture in PhotoShop but the Moon still looks like someone burnt a hole in the photo. Sorry about that. The photo was taken at ESO / La Silla, Chile, in October 1998.
La Silla '98
Orion (Hunter) in the middle. Lepus (Hare) above it. Parts of Eridanus (Po River) on the left. [alpha] Canis Majoris (Canis Major = Big Dog), commonly known as Sirius, on the right. Taken at ESO / La Silla, Chile, in October 1998.
La Silla '98
[alpha] Centauri (Centaurus = Centaur), commonly known as Rigil, and [beta] Centauri at the lower left corner. Trianglulum Australe (Southern Triangle) faintly visible above Rigil. Circinus (Compass) lies in between but is invisible in this photo. Ara (Altar) to the right of Triangulum Australe. Norma (Carpenter's Level) below Ara, or in the very centre of the photo, is not visible. Parts of Lupus (Wolf) are visible in the middle bottom part of the photo. Most of Scorpius (Scorpion) lies on the right half of the photo. [alpha] Scorpii, commonly known as Antares, is the red star close to lower right of the photo. [theta], [iota], [lambda], and [kappa] Scorpii form a dense region of stars in the upper right quarter of the photo. Taken at ESO / La Silla, Chile, in October 1998.
La Silla '98
The two bright stars close to horizon on the right are [alpha] Centauri (Rigil) and [beta] Centauri. At the right edge parts of Triangulum Australe occupy the lower half and the entire Apus (Bird of Paradise) the upper half of the photo. Low in the centre lies Crux (Southern Cross) with some more of Centaurus to its left. Above the Crux is Musca (Fly). The three leftmost stars are [kappa], [fi], and [my] Velorum (Vela = Sail of Ship) with most of Carina (Keel of Ship) to the right of them. Taken at ESO / La Silla, Chile, in October 1998.
La Silla '98
Lyra (Lyre or Harp) is well portrayed on top of the twin towers of telescopes; with [alpha] Lyrae, commonly known as Vega, as the brightest of them all. On the right most of Cygnus with [alpha] Cygni, commonly known as Deneb, just visible next to the edge. To the left of Lyra parts of Hercules are barely shown. The star next to the left edge is [alpha] Ophiuchi (Ophiuchus = Holder of Serpent). Taken at ESO / La Silla, Chile, in October 1998.
La Silla '98
Northern half of Auriga (Charioteer) on the left and of Gemini (Twins) on the Right. [alpha] Aurigae, commonly known as Capella, is the brightest star on the photo, close to the left edge. [beta], [theta], and [eta] Aurigae are also well visible. On the right [alpha] and [beta] Geminorum, commonly known as Castor and Pollux, are the two bright stars at the bottom of a group of stars. [delta] and [tau] Geminorum are also visible. Taken at ESO / La Silla, Chile, in October 1998.

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