Where in the sky, is this?

[Swithin StCleeve]

I found this photo on a memory card of constellation photography I did in April 2018. I don't think it's cropped, so it's just a constellation photo with a 50mm lens. I've been looking at it for ages and I don't know which constellation it is. Anyone recognise it?
It's driving me up the wall!


 

[Zakalwe]

Load it up to Astrometry.net and it will plate solve it for you.

[Zakalwe]

Here you go:

Center (RA, Dec):	(218.862, 59.638)
Center (RA, hms):	14h 35m 26.907s
Center (Dec, dms):	+59° 38' 18.381"
Size:	25 x 16.7 deg
Radius:	15.006 deg
Pixel scale:	87.8 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:	Up is 121 degrees E of N

 

 

[Swithin StCleeve]

Wow, that's impressive. And I'd have never figured that out, so I feel a little less foolish now. Thanks so much!

[Zakalwe]

Don't mention it. I didn't do anything other than load it onto the astrometry engine and it did all the magic!  It's amazing the quantity and quality of tools and resources out there on the Web

[Craney]

The next question is.... so what was so interesting about that region of sky  for you to photograph it ????  

[Swithin StCleeve]

13 minutes ago, Craney said:

The next question is.... so what was so interesting about that region of sky  for you to photograph it ????  

Nothing, I'm afraid. I was testing a new lens out. I'd been using a kit lens and someone kindly sent me a higher quality 50mm lens, and I do love constellation photography. I found the picture today because I was looking for pictures of the Coma Cluster, (seeing as Thursday night was the first time I'd been out to dark skies in a couple of months, and it's nice for viewing Melotte 111 around now).
Anyway, I found that shot and thought 'where the hell is that!'. Plus, I thought I might re-visit those two stars in the scope to see if the colours  are evident in the scope. The picture might be saturated, but they look very nice together in a wide field shot, Albereo like. 

 

Edited May 16, 2020 by Swithin StCleeve

[Jkulin]

I'm just uploading to Astrometry.net and I'll post the results when it has updated for you.

Here you go: -

Edited May 16, 2020 by Jkulin