Night sky - Astronomy

[Ghostly_Substance]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y292/GhostlyPolovnik/Silent%20Hunter%20III/SH34.jpg

 

Well while I was on my fourth patrol I decided to check out the weather and well it was very clear again. I was wondering what this could be since it does look like some zodiac sign. Oh and this is over Euro skies.

 

edit: Looks like a horse but what do you guys think?

Edited January 30, 2006 by Ghostly_Substance

[Relentless]

It looks just like an elk.

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

i looks Vagely like a Horse.

[Darkmark]

:  I can see you've not done much stargazing.  That 'head' of the horse or elk is Orion.  Notice the 3 star belt.

 

From that we have the first bit of the body, which is actually Lepus.  It's meant to be a hare.

 

And finally, Canis Major.  Orion's dog, which is that group of stars on the left. 

[Foshjedi2004]

DM is correct.  Nice to know that someone in Britain apart from me know's their Astronomy

[Ghostly_Substance]

I saw little and big dipper  ;D If I can recognize those then I know im fine  ;D They're easy and if you cant find them or regonize them then well..........weak 

[Dorkthehunter]

I saw little and big dipper  ;D If I can recognize those then I know im fine  ;D They're easy and if you cant find them or regonize them then well..........weak 

 

What are those little white dots in the middle of that big black thing???

[Ghostly_Substance]

What are those little white dots in the middle of that big black thing???

 

Give me about 5 min to add that picture (if I have it) onto photobucket then here  ;D Gotta resize since damn does fraps ever make them huge.

 

What can you see ?  :

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y292/GhostlyPolovnik/Silent%20Hunter%20III/SH39.jpg

 

I think I see Big Dipper, I maybe wrong but its what I saw in Europe (in reallife) : Never saw Big Dipper here in North America.

 

edit: Also this

 

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y292/GhostlyPolovnik/Silent%20Hunter%20III/SH310.jpg

Edited January 31, 2006 by Ghostly_Substance

[Darkmark]

In the first of the two recent pictures is, as your guessed, Ursa Major.  Also known as the Plough, the Great Bear or Big Dipper.  In that picture there's also a good chunk of Draco and at the very top, part of Ursa Minor.  You should be able to see it in America, since it's hemisphere that tends to affect what you can or can't see.

 

The second is Orion again (belt is a dead giveaway), and to it's left  the almost rectangular Gemini.  My memory's a bit fuzzy, so I don't recall what the group above Orion is.  Might be Taurus, I know that's somewhere around that area.