Help with constellations/planets

[summerson]

Hi Stargazers

New on the forum here. I've been marvelling at this photo of the great rift in the milky way, but since I'm no astronomer, I've been unable to identify what constellations and planets are actually visible within this framing: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Dark_Rift_2012.jpg

So if any of you could provide answers, or point me to some interactive map I can compare the photo to, I would be very grateful,

 

Love

Søren

[vlaiv]

Hi and welcome to SGL.

What you are seeing is part of the Milky way around what is called "Summer Triangle" - three prominent summer stars - Altair, Deneb and Vega.

Prominent constellations are Cygnus and Sagittarius.

Download software called Stellarium and you can get a lot of information about night sky from it. Here is screen shot of the same area of the sky:

I marked summer triangle out for you and here it is in original image:

[summerson]

Great, thanks so much!