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NIGHT OVER ONTARIO

These photos were taken by Lynn Hilborn of Grafton, Ontario.
Pictures have appeared on the cover and inside editions of SkyNews magazine and in Sky & Telescope and Astronomy magazine, and as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.

“ Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,”
W.B.Yeats



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Star Trails  and Meteors over Snug Harbour, Georgian Bay
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Star Trails and Meteors over Snug Harbour, Georgian Bay

On the horizon left of centre is the Snug Harbour Lighthouse shining a green navigation light out to Georgian Bay. The Milky Way with Andromeda galaxy are in the upper third of the image. The star trails represent the earth's rotation with the earth axis projected through Polaris, the north star...center of the circle. The meteors are from the annual Perseids meteor shower.
Image taken by Lynn Hilborn, August 13 ,2018... 192 images ( 38 seconds exposure) stacked. Taken with a modified Canon 6d and Rokinon 12mm fisheye lens.

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