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Cassiopeia Constellation over the Ismail Abad Military Castle, Behzad Shahyar

Cassiopeia Constellation over the Ismail Abad Military Castle

Cassiopeia Constellation over the Ismail Abad Military Castle, Behzad Shahyar

Cassiopeia Constellation over the Ismail Abad Military Castle

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Canon 6D

Canon Lens 40mm f/2.8

Exp 20Sec

f/2.8

Iso 3200

P820 Filter

Date Taken: 10/11/2018

This castle dates back more than 1000 years and is located in Mazinan, west of Sabzevar City (Iran-Khorasan Razavi Province).

Cassiopeia is one of the constellations in the northern hemisphere and has five main stars which M-shape or W-shape from are easily visible and for the first time was observed by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi with the naked eye.In Greek mythology this constellation is called as Cassiopeia and it is said in legends that a prominent woman is siting on a chair.

Double cluster of NGC 884 and NGC 869 is seen in the right side of the image at the edge of the wall.these star clusters known as H , X are a kind of open cluster which is belonging to the bodies of the depth sky in perseus constellation and their distance to the earth is about 7000 light years.

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Cassiopeia Constellation over the Ismail Abad Military Castle, Behzad Shahyar