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Cecille Kennedy
Fogarty Creek State Park, Oregon
11/24/2022
05:58 am

Equipment Details:

Nikon D850. 24mm, f/2.8, 10sec, ISO 5000

Post-processing Details:

brighten, contrast, sharpen PS

Image Details:

Three meteors are in the topmost middle of the image. They are most likely Leonid meteors. The Leonid meteor shower is active from 6 November to 30 November, usually predawn.
The bright celestial objects from left to right are Sirius, Orion's leg named Rigel, Orion's sword, Orion's shoulder named Betelgeuse, Mars, Aldebaran and The Pleiades aka The Seven Sisters.
This photo was taken at Fogarty Creek State Park. The creek flows into the Pacific Ocean shown between the hill on the left and the basalt rock outcropping on the right.

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