So much detail. Far too much for one photograph, that’s for sure. To wit:
The featured dark sky composite combines over 60 exposures spanning over 220 degrees to create a veritable menagerie of night sky wonders. Visible celestial icons include the Belt of Orion, the Orion Nebula, the Andromeda Galaxy, the California Nebula, and bright stars Sirius and Betelgeuse. You can verify that you found these, if you did, by checking an annotated version of the image. A bit harder, though, is finding Polaris and the Big Dipper. Also discernible are several meteors from the Quandrantids meteor shower, red and green airglow, and two friends of the astrophotographer. The picture was captured in January from Sardinia, Italy. You can see sky wonders in your own night sky tonight — including more meteors than usual — because tonight is near peak of the yearly Orionids meteor shower.
(Image: Tomáš Slovinský)
wow !
I spotted Mars for the first time last night,
so special to actually see it with your own eyes,
I love how peaceful the sense of this rocks insignificance makes me feel when contemplating the heavens,
all this scrambling in this flash of time means nothing so no need to stress or worry.