Tag: Sacred Hoop

Romantic Night Sights While the Waxing Moon Dances with Jupiter, Shows Some L-O-V-E, and Finds the Football!

Adrien Klamerius took this image of the Heart (upper left) and Soul (lower right) nebulas in Cassiopeia, also known as IC 1805 and IC 1848, respectively. The Double Cluster as at top centre. The area of sky covers about 10 degrees, or a fist diameter. NASA APOD for Sep 24, 2016 Hello, Night Sky Lovers!…
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The Waxing Moon Meets Mars and Joins Gemini While Crossing the Sacred Hoop and We Wave Farewell to Jupiter and Hello to Mercury While Venus Vaults Higher!

This spectacular image by my friend Andrea Girones was taken recently at Morant’s Curve, Alberta using a DSLR with a 20mm lens on a star tracking mount. It captures the arc of faintly glowing reddish hydrogen gas around Orion and the nimbus around his head (at left), the bright compact Rosette Nebula (upper left), Mars…
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