![]() ![]() The Meridian is the line going from North to South through Zenith (the point vertically straight above you). The latitude of the celestial pole (for us in the Northern Hemisphere the North Star) is equal to the observer’s latitude, and thus the angle between the Celestial Equator and the Meridian is equal to the 90 minus your latitude – in this case where the photo is taken in Greece at 36° latitude, the angle of the Celestial Equator and the Meridian were 54° (90-36=54). The Celestial Equator always crosses the horizon exactly due East and exactly due West – regardless of the observer’s position on Earth. In the middle – at the Celestial Equator – everything seems to be moving in straight lines. The Celestial Equator is a projection of Earth’s Equator into Space – just like the Celestial North- and South Poles are projections into Space directly above the geographic North and South Poles, respectively.Īll stars North (above, seen from the Northern Hemisphere) of the Celestial Equator seems to be circling around the celestial North Pole (The North Star) and everything South (below, seen from the Northern Hemisphere) of the Celestial Equator seems to be circling around the celestial South Pole (near to the Southern Cross). The result is that the Celestial Equator becomes visible! ![]() The interesting, I think, is that this photo is taken in a South-Westerly direction (opposite to other Star Trail photos which are mostly taken straight North or South). The thick prominent white single star trail glowing purple to the lower right – just above the trees – is our planet Jupiter shining up (and Saturn is also more prominent than the stars, a little higher up the left)! The result is a so called Star Trails photo. The resulting image is made from combining 162x20sec photos (+143 darks frames) and was processed and assembled in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. The difference however is that this photo comprises of many more “sub photos” than the other one – and especially the post-processing method differs! This photo is actually the same image as one of the other photos I took of the Milky Way on the Greek island of Symi in the summer of 2019. ![]()
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