Robby
19th January 2008, 03:43 PM
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0801/CastleHolmes_heden_c1.jpg (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0801/CastleHolmes_heden_f.jpg)
Starry Night Castle
Credit & Copyright (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/ about_apod.html#srapply): P-M Hedén (http://www.clearskies.se/)
Explanation: The tantalizing Pleiades (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071122.html) star cluster seems to lie just beyond the trees above a dark castle tower (http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photos.asp?ID=3001176) in this dramatic view (http://www.clearskies.se/Castle%20ruin%20and%20Holmes.htm) of The World at Night (http://www.twanight.org/). Recorded earlier this month, the starry sky also features bright star Aldebaran (http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/ aldebaran.html) below the Pleiades and a small, faint, fuzzy cloud otherwise known as Comet Holmes (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071121.html) near picture center at the top of the field. Starry Night Castle might be (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050218.html) an appropriate name for the medieval castle ruin in the foreground. But its traditional name is Mörby Castle (http://www.castlesontheweb.com/photoarchive/ index.php?action=album&id=1421&sessionid=), found north of Stockholm, near lake Skedviken in Norrtälje, Sweden.
(Via NASA) (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080119.html)
Starry Night Castle
Credit & Copyright (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/ about_apod.html#srapply): P-M Hedén (http://www.clearskies.se/)
Explanation: The tantalizing Pleiades (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071122.html) star cluster seems to lie just beyond the trees above a dark castle tower (http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photos.asp?ID=3001176) in this dramatic view (http://www.clearskies.se/Castle%20ruin%20and%20Holmes.htm) of The World at Night (http://www.twanight.org/). Recorded earlier this month, the starry sky also features bright star Aldebaran (http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/ aldebaran.html) below the Pleiades and a small, faint, fuzzy cloud otherwise known as Comet Holmes (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071121.html) near picture center at the top of the field. Starry Night Castle might be (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050218.html) an appropriate name for the medieval castle ruin in the foreground. But its traditional name is Mörby Castle (http://www.castlesontheweb.com/photoarchive/ index.php?action=album&id=1421&sessionid=), found north of Stockholm, near lake Skedviken in Norrtälje, Sweden.
(Via NASA) (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080119.html)