~ Orion Betelgeuse ~
Taken by Noeleen Lowndes on February 29, 2020 @
Flanagans Reserve Qld Australia
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Date Taken: 2020:03:01 20:15:08
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This is the first time I’ve had a clear night to view the star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion and it's the evening of the 29th February 2020 (Leap Day). After taking images of the Moon and Venus (which I posted on spaceweather.com earlier today) I waited until Orion was getting low in the western sky to take some images to see how bright the star Betelgeuse was and in this very dark sky it was radiating brightly. Whatever has been happening with Betelgeuse seems to be sorting itself out…
I only have very basic equipment with me as we are camping and I didn’t expect to be taking any images because of the many people with fires and lights in the camp ground, but we have found a lovely little corner where it’s very dark and I could not be happier out here with all the mosquitoes taking images of the night sky :-)
The image was taken with a Canon 70D camera and a Tamron 18-400mm lens set at 24mm, the exposure time was just 10 seconds and ISO 2000, 10 images were stacked in DSS (Deep Sky Stacker) and processed in PS CS4.
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