Autumn

Autumn : Learn a few constellations every night and you'll have a friend. Have you lost in an unfamiliar city or state? Odds are you some signposts and a map. Luckily here, the sky provides two signposts to us. Each description will talk a group. The constellation Orion the Hunter plays an integral role in finding the way around the sky until spring. Each map portrays the sky from near 35 north latitude in the times. Situated on the map's borders would be all the four directions: north, south, east, and west. Maintain the map overhead to find stars over your horizon and orient it so a management label matches the direction you're facing.

The stars over the horizon of the map match what's in the sky. Researching - Winter finds the Big Dipper scaling the sky, with the 3 stars of its handle pointing toward all the four stars and the horizon of its bowl. The sky rotates around a stage near Polaris, a magnitude star found by extending a line. Polaris also performs two other important functions: The elevation of the star over all the horizon equals your latitude north of all the equator, and dropping a straight line out of all the star to all the horizon points due north. Turn round together with your back to the Dipper and you will be currently facing the diamond studded winter sky.

The 2nd great signpost from all the sky, Orion all the Hunter, is central to all the brilliant scene. Three closely spaced, 2nd magnitude stars form some straight line which represents the unmistakable belt of Orion. Extending all the imaginary line joining these stars to all the top right leads to Taurus all the Bull and its orangish first magnitude star, Aldebaran. Reverse the direction of your gaze into the belt's lower left and you can't miss Sirius all the Dog Star brightest in all the skies at magnitude -1.5. Now moved perpendicularly to the belt out of its westernmost star, Mintaka, and discover the red supergiant star Betelgeuse in the top left of Orion.

Almost a thousand times all the Sun's diameter, Betelgeuse marks one shoulder of Orion. Continuing this line takes you to a set of bright stars, Castor and Pollux. Two lines of weaker stars extend out of this set back toward Orion these represent Gemini all the Twins. In the northeastern corner of the constellation lies the gorgeous open star cluster M35. #photography #iphoneonly #autumn #nature #writing