Das Morgen-Zodiakal-Licht (das subtile Leuchten, das von links bis oben in die Mitte steigt) mit Venus als Morgenstern direkt unter dem Licht. Das Zodiakal Li
8192 x 5464 px | 69,4 x 46,3 cm | 27,3 x 18,2 inches | 300dpi
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22. September 2023
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The morning Zodiacal Light (the subtle glow rising from the left up to top centre) with Venus as a morning star just below the Light. The Zodiacal Light is from sunlight reflecting off dust in the inner solar system and lies along the ecliptic. At this time the orbit of Venus was tipped below the ecliptic by about 4°, placing Venus to the right of the Zodiacal Light here. Venus was just past its point of greatest brilliancy for this morning apparition in late 2023, at magnitude -4.7. This was September 22, 2023. Orion and the winter stars of Procyon and Sirius (just above the clouds) are at right. The star cluster Messier 44, or the Beehive Cluster, in Cancer is above Venus. The stars of Leo including Regulus are just rising below and to the left of Venus. This is a stack of 5 x 1-minute tracked exposures with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at 15mm and at f/2.8 on the Canon R5 at ISO 800. The ground is blurred from the tracking; I did not shoot untracked sharp ground images, preferring here to keep the ground as a dark blurred silhouette. The tracker was the Star Adventurer Mini.
