I was up letting the dog out at 3am the other night and saw an orange crescent moon rising over the neighbor's house. Next to it, I saw two brighter stars - but when I went to take a picture of the scene I thought I was getting some crazy double lens flare or something. What were these two extra stars below it? I seriously thought it was some kind of lens anomaly.
![crescent moon with scorpio crescent moon with scorpio](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGH0fDcQF9plqaUf1nsMJd_2GPSKoFD5B9AJZOIwhU16MjS9FRIzmRY66TkQjiIFcbuqRYnXOZlIJUwviy3BL0v2HpT_SyLAdoh34wKa0AeKaSwPBhBTV0SpepmaJ4QqXKD5Olvi6iwCJP/s1600/crescent+moon+with+saturn+and+scorpio.jpg) |
Single frame, Canon T5i, f/6.3, 2 sec, ISO 1600, 110mm |
Then I hopped on Stellarium and saw that this group of stars was actually Saturn in the head of Scorpio. Like a little sideways big dipper with Saturn, β1 Sco (Acrab), ν Sco, ω1 Sco, ω2 Sco, and δ Sco (Dschubba).
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