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Into the constellation of Sagittarius - Milkyway From the 10th National Annual Star Party of Greek Amateur Astronomers at mountain Parnon. Special thanks to the Astronomical Union of Sparta! text wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_(constellation) Sagittarius is one of the constellat...

Cosmic Emotions As the moon reigned over her chariot, the horizon was red, fell in love with the nature and the stars shone even more! Mars and Saturn dragged the dance, in Libra, in Ophiuchus and Scorpio and our Galaxy as a delusion shining in the firmament ... Perhaps the most fabulous thing was t...

Waxing Crescent Moon 1,39 days old!!! Waning crescent moon above Diapontia islands of Greece, Northwest Corfu, Greece. This capture was an almost seen Moon through camera, it wan't visible with naked eyes. It took a while till I found it. Canon eos 700D, SW ED80, 600mm, f/7,5, iso800, 1/15sec 2nd im...

Moon occults Aldebaran Minutes just before the Occultation the Waning Crescent Moon is approaching Aldebaran near the crater Pythagoras! Canon eos 700D, Takahashi Toa 130 Apo, 1000mm, f/7.7, Astrotech Flattener, iso100 Astronomic Society of Corfu Moon 26,95 days old distance 365765km Aldebaran dista...

Interstellar trip... Looking towards the center of our galaxy, Milkyway, from last night stargazing at Pilida area of Sokraki, Corfu Banquet of interstellar dust matter and looking at the internal threads of our galaxy somewhere between Centaur Sagittarius and the powerful Scorpio in the constellati...

Eternal Delusion, Porto Timone, Corfu Night landscape above Porto Timone, a twin sandy beach at Afionas village, Corfu. With the Milky Way shines in the firmament! The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. Its name "milky" is derived from its appearance as a dim glowing b...

Journey to the Twilight Twilight at lagoon Korission , a Natura2.000 area, with the light of Dawn shining above it. With Constellations still shine in the firmament, the constellation of Cassiopeia shines on the left in the picture. While to the center distinguish several stars from the constellatio...

Ortholithi beneath the stars Night landscape near the islet Megalo Tholeto also known as Ortholithi, a vertical rock southern of Ai Gordis beach, Corfu. The rock as well as the surrounding area consists of marl and sandstone formation which often inserted layers of pebbles, while the top of the sedi...

Full Moon of May above San Marco Fortress Almost apogee Full Moon with distance at 400500km away is "touching" the mountain hill Mesovouni* of Thesprotia just 50km way. And just under it is the San Marco's Fortress a Unesco World Heritage, only 5.4km away, build by the Venetians in 16th ce...

Fireball over Korission lagoon A shooting star, a bright meteor almost a Fireball over Lagoon Korission in southwester Corfu, just next to the star dust and clouds of our imagination galactic horse, makes our fantasy galloping, traveling in cosmic star dust and clouds the center the Milky Way. A sto...

Interstellar matter and dust Banquet of interstellar dust matter and looking at the internal threads of our galaxy somewhere between Centaur Sagittarius and the powerful Scorpio in the constellation Ophiuchus, where the secular horse galloping our imagination inside the stars. The main disc of our g...

Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex with Mars and Saturn The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is a dark nebula of gas and dust that is located 1° south of the star ρ Ophiuchi of the constellation Ophiuchus. At an estimated distance of 131 ± 3 parsecs, this cloud is one of the closest star-forming regions to the So...

Night Sky Dream!! Night landscape above the sandy beach of Chalikounas, near lagoon Korission, Natura 2.000, Corfu. With the Milkyway Galaxy lighting-up all the nightsky, Our Cosmic Island Via lactea, our Galaxy Milkyway floting above the Ionian sea, a cosmic island measure some 100,000–120,000 ligh...

The Glory of our Galaxy Via lactea, our Galaxy Milkyway floting above the Ionian sea, a cosmic island measure some 100,000–120,000 light-years in diameter and with almost 100–400 billion stars. Our Solar System is about 27,000 light years away from the Galactic Center, while we are on the inner edge...

Hi, I've got here my last nightscape timelapse, hope you like it. :) Share if you like :D Corfu Nightscapes - La vie en rose by Katherine Tsialou Bill Metallinos - Astronomical Society of Corfu Perfor La vie en rose by Édith Piaf Sound engineering: John Miliadis, George Kokoras, Camera: Bill Metalli...

Sagittarius Arm above Old Town of Corfu What does a Spiral arms looks like above two towns? Our Galaxy Milkyway, a cosmic island with almost 200 billion stars forming Spiral arms, one of this arms can be seen in the above capture. With the Sagittarius Star Cloud at the centre and top of the the phot...

Nightscape above Chomoi, Liapades, Corfu Night landscape above the paradise beach of Chomoi in Liapades Corfu, with the summer Milkyway above the limestones and the marls of Liapades-Yiannades stones. Just inside the clouds on the right is the old constellation of the Scorpion's Claws, now known as ...

Planetary Conjunction above Corfiot sea Night landscape before the dawn above the island and the sea of Corfu, with the waning crescent Moon, age 27 days old, shines above all at 378694km away. Just under and right is our sister planet Venus with magnitude almost -4.0 shines at 1,37AU away almost ab...

Just before the dawn Towards to the old town of Corfu and just above Dasia, the Summer Constalations into the twilight zone with the big Scorpion at the right of the picture. Also near to Antares, the brighter star of Scorpio is Planet Saturn, down and to the centre is Venus and to the left is Mercu...

Shooting Star & Apotripiti's islet, Canal D'Amour, Corfu A bright meteor with green colour, a little rock with magnesium, sodium and iron, heated up and burn from the collision with air particles in the upper atmosphere, in a night landscape above the clay hill and the clay islet age 1m.-2m. yea...

Planetary Conjunction above Cavo Bianco, Asprokavos. The three planets, Venus, Jupiter and Mars are just above the small cave of sandstone in the beautiful clay-hill beach of Arcoudilas. The planets is just under the Constalation of Leo. The colors was just amazing, Venus was the most beautiful and ...

Total Lunar Eclipse Super Full Moon under the Shadow of the Earth. From mt Ai Giorgis, Vatos, near Myrtiotisa, Corfu eith the Astronomic Society of Corfu. The colour of the Full Moon was tremendous beautiful, a red big object in the night sky! The stars in the sky was so amazingly bright with the sp...

Full Moon of August

Moon 15,89 days old
distance 358083km
Azimuth 95°42'
Altitude 1°29'
Corfu 30 August 2015, 20:52(UT+3)

Canon eos 6D
EF 100-400 is usm l
400mm
f/5.6
iso800
1,6sec

Touching the Moon Blue Moon of July, the 2nd Full Moon of the month, touching the Fortress of San Marco,the New fortress of Corfu, while little Constantina, my niece, trying to touch the Moon with her mother and father, Zoe Metallinos & Alexandros Chimarios. day's capture was capture the Sequel ...

Blue Family Moon Blue Moon of July, the 2nd Full Moon of the month, tuching the Fortress of San Marco,the New fortress of Corfu, while little Constantina, my niece, sent hello to us with her mother and father, Zoe Metallinos & Alexandros Chimarios. day's capture was capture the Sequel of the Moo...