Friday, September 24, 2010

APOD 1.4

Night sky in Iran
This image of the night sky from the Alborz Mountains in Iran shows some of the commoner stellar objects labeled. It shows the constellations Perseus, Ares, Pisces, Cetus, and Triangulum. The planet Jupiter is also shown as the brightest object in the sky. At opposition Jupiter is as close as it gets to Earth. Uranus is also in the same area as Jupiter, but it's not visible to the naked eye. Two M Objects are visible as well, M31 and M33.

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