>> Does anybody know which star is near 2 o'clock in the frame?
It took a moment, but I figured what was bothering me about
this picture from the first look: it is inverted to the sky, so even
though the picture looks north, _west_ is to the _right_. The mostly-blue
stars not too far above and right of Polaris are the Big Dipper, and
Tom's star is Arcturus, which would have set relatively early in the
evening. The longer arc below it and extending to the Milky Way fuzz
on the left is Vega. Deneb in the bright part of the MW that's upper-left
from Polaris...you can take it from there.
Presumably since this is a digital image, flipping left-to-right
should be straightforward to do.
\Brian
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