Credit & Copyright: Dong Han  
  
 
Explanation:
Taken near local midnight, this autumn night's panorama follows the  
arch of the Milky Way across the northern horizon from the  
High Fens, Eifel Nature Park at the border of Belgium and Germany.  
  
Shift your gaze across  
the wetlands from west to east (left to right) and you  
can watch stars once more prominent in northern summer give way to  
those that will soon dominate northern winter nights.  
  
Setting, wanderer Mars is brightest at the far left,  
still shinning against  
almost overwhelming  
city lights along the southwestern horizon.  
  
Bright stars Altair, Deneb, and Vega form the northern sky's  
summer triangle,  
straddling the Milky Way left of center.  
  
Part of the  
winter hexagon Capella and Aldebaran,  
along with the beautiful Pleiades star cluster  
shine across the northeastern sky.  
  
The line-of-sight along the hikers boardwalk leads almost directly  
toward the Big Dipper, an  
all season asterism from these northern  
latitudes.  
  
Follow the Big Dipper's pointer stars to  
Polaris and the north celestial pole nearly centered above it.  
  
Andromeda, the other large galaxy  
in the skyscape, is near the top of the frame.  
  
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