Colours of the stars of the costellations
Taken by Paolo Palma on December 13, 2020 @
Napoli
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In the last years I have dedicated myself to the colours of all the stars visible to the naked eye: chosen a constellation, I point one by one all its stars until magn. +5 with my dobson 18" from my house's garden near Naples, and after putting them out of focus to make its color better visible, I photograph them with my smarthpone (magnification is 285x). I slowly build a collage, taking into account the brightness, thus obtaining images of CONSTELLATIONS in COLOUR where the nuances of each single star that draw them are all visible in a single glance. The result is truly original, also because the most of these stars, being far from deep-sky objects or not being double stars, usually go unnoticed, yet at the telescope they reveal loads of very surprising nuances. It is really nice, piece by piece, to see the overall effect that comes out every time: the constellations that one thought he knew, appear new, with shades that obviously you did not imagine and often capable of removing from the anonymity small stars to which usually no importance was given. The final images then, with the lines of the constellations and the stars out of focus, remind me long ethnic necklaces rich in stones and precious metals. So far I have photographed over 1000 stars! Here you can see the colours of 193 stars in one glance! They tell the mythological tale of Andromeda. You can find all my collage of the costellations in colours on my site www.unsaltonelcielo.it
I hope you like them.
Photographer's website:
https://http://www.unsaltonelcielo.it/costellazioni-a-colori-il-ciclo-di-andromeda/
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