Does anyone recognise this?

[gataki]

Hi everyone,

I took this photo on 18th July at 23.25 BST in Croydon, looking East, maybe a bit Southeast. Since then I have played around with the image in GIMP trying to get a constellation that I can recognise and match up to something in my Star Atlas or planisphere with absolutely no success!

My Canon 1000d was hooked up to my 102slt.

A couple of days previously I took some widefield shots of Cygnus and Vulpecula (with just the Canon) which are easily identifiable - they were much higher in the sky than this.

It's really annoying me :iamwithstupid:and I'd be VERY grateful if someone could put me out of my misery!

Thanks very much,

Liz

[Merlin66]

With the limited field of view with that set up and the lack of definate directions... very difficult to establish the field....

[Taff]

Hi Liz' Which constellations' is in the area when you taking your capture.Mark

[gataki]

Thanks Merlin and Mark - lol - that's the problem!

I thought it was 'underneath' Cygnus (ie closer to the horizon). Trouble is when I looked at the chart in the Sky at Night mag the next day there wasn't a constellation there! Not as far East as Pegasus ... and at a higher altitude than Jupiter which was appearing a bit further South.

Do I sound confused? (I really am!!) I have been scrutinising charts and different versions of the image and it's driving me mad!

Just a long shot but does any one have any ideas??

Thanks,

Liz

[gataki]

PS

This was the first time since getting the Nexstar that I hadn't been using 'goto' - I've obviously become far to reliant on it and haven't been 'learning the sky' at the same time.

There's a lesson in there somewhere ~ but I do love the fact that I can find things quickly and track them with the 'goto'.

Liz

[SteveL]

Astrometry.net (Finished job alpha-200907-93384859)

[ashenlight]

oooh, nice one Steve

[JamesK]

Bookmarked that site - looks a good 'un.

[gataki]

Thanks very much Steve ~ that's amazing! I'm also really pleased to see that I was at least in the bit of sky I thought i was in ...

Liz

[Mikea]

Now that does impress me! Aren't there some clever peeps about!

[jonbarr87]

Wow. That site is in the faves forever now! lol