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Here is the second part of my tour of the Winter sky of my image 'Contact'. Let's take a closer look at some deep sky objects from far to close:

At the very top of the image, you can see two blue circles, containing cutouts of the farthest objects in the image. M74 and M33, the Triangulum Galaxy. Both are spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way. M74 appears tiny because it is 32 million light-years away from Earth, while M33 is ten times closer at 2.73 ly. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third largest galaxy of our local group, behind the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. I was surprised that I was able to capture its spiral structure with my 24mm lens.

The orange circles mark open clusters. An open cluster is a group of up to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud and have roughly the same age. More than 1,100 open clusters have been discovered within the Milky Way Galaxy, whereof the Pleiades and the Hyades, which take the center stage...

As a landscape photographer and pilot I have the privilege to travel the world and visit some of the most beautiful places on our planet. I started photography as an astro-photographer, which still shows in my passion for nightscapes. While not exclusively shooting at night, a big part of my work shows the beauty of the starry night skies in combination with some iconic landscapes. Thanks for visiting my gallery.