License: CC0
Original Resolution: 4188 × 4188 pixels (17.5 MP)
EXIF Details: Date: Taken on 1 October 2017, 09:26
Description:
Orion’s Belt Credit: DSS – POSS-II(*) / WISE /NASA/JPL-Caltech / UCLA/ Giuseppe Donatiello
RA center: 83.925° DEC center: -1.021° Field radius: 2.296°
Orion’s Belt or the Belt of Orion, also known as the Three Kings or Three Sisters, is an asterism in the constellation Orion. It consists of the three bright stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka
The Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) was produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant NAG W-2166. The images of these surveys are based on photographic data obtained using the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain and the UK Schmidt Telescope. The plates were processed into the present compressed digital form with the permission of these institutions
(*) The Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II) was made by the California Institute of Technology with funds from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Sloan Foundation, the Samuel Oschin Foundation, and the Eastman Kodak Corporation.
