At 12:22 AM 7/27/2004 -0700, Brian Skiff wrote: >>> 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. Okay, it makes sense now. I think the long yellowish trail that begins just above center is Arcturus, and the "star" near the meteor is Jupiter. Spica's trail also begins halfway across the frame, but it's three-quarters of the way from the center to the top. Sorry to do this to you image, Richard. Tom -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.