360 degree all-sky panorama of the northern spring sky. image was taken when the North Galactic Pole (NGP) in Coma Berenices was due south and as high in the sky as it gets from this latitude of 51 degrees north. The view is looking up out of the plane of the our galaxy the Milky Way, placing the band of the galaxy along the horizon, visible here only as an arc low across the north at top, where it is obscured by the glow of Northern Lights that appeared this night. South is at bottom; north at top. West is to the right; east to the left. Zenith is at centre. The Big Dipper is directly overhead at the zenith in the centre of the image. Polaris is above centre high in the north, close to the North Celestial Pole (NCP). Arcturus is the brightest star in the spring sky, and is here below centre, below the handle of the Dipper. Spica is at bottom, low in the south. Castor and Pollux in Gemini are low in the west, the last of the winter stars setting. Capella in Auriga is at top right in the northwest. Regulus in Leo is at bottom right, high in the southwest. Flanking Leo are the naked-eye star clusters Melotte 111 (east, left of Leo) in Coma Berenices, and M44, the Beehive (west, right of Leo) in Cancer. Vega and Deneb are rising in the east at left, heralding the arrival of the summer stars. The head of Scorpius is just rising low in the southeast at bottom left, but Antares had not yet risen. While the aurora is prominent there was very little airglow banding apparent. Taken on the night of April 14/15, 2021.
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