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On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 13:53:26 -0400,
ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) wrote:
Is this
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ntbdmb4
Pleiades? And is this
No. It's part of The Kingdom, a series of digital matte paintings created by the French artist Seb Janiak.
http://www.sebjaniak.com/photos/fine-art/the-kingdom
Since it's a photo composite, it's not apparent to me what it really is.
The stars do strongly resemble a wide-field image of the Milky Way, but I cannot
recognize any specific parts of it. That's possibly because it's a long exposure image, and film responds differently than the human eye to
different wavelengths of light. It also might be a very narrow field image that merely looks like the whole milky way. And it's also very likely a stitched-together image, so probably only the artist knows what it is.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/pecq35s
Andromeda? The thing that isn't the Moon; I have a handle on that.
Yes. It shows the apparent size of the Andromeda Galaxy in our
sky. It's not that bright, of course. Under reasonably dark skies, I
can see a fuzzy ellipse that's about as long as the width of the moon,
or about half a degree of arc. The Andromeda Galaxy (also known
as M31) is the largest of the three major galaxies in our local group.
It's somewhat mind-boggling that something that is 2.2 million light-years distant can look so big, or that it can be viewed with the naked eye.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/01/moon_and_andromeda_relative_size_in_the_sky.html
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