Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Spica and company looking towards Wicklow Head, Enda Kelly
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Spica and company looking towards Wicklow Head

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Looking ESE towards Wicklow Head from the 6th Tee at Wicklow Golf Club on Tuesday 22nd March 2022 at 22:22 . I used a modded EOS RP with the RF 50mm at f/1.8, ISO 12800 and 6 seconds of an exposure.

The bright star "Spica", (Latin: “Head of Grain”) also called Alpha Virginis, brightest star in the zodiacalconstellationVirgo and one of the 15 brightest in the entire sky, having an apparent visual magnitude of 1.04. It is a bluish star; spectroscopic examination reveals Spica to be a binary with a four-day period, its two components being of the first and third magnitudes, respectively. Spica lies about 250 light-years from Earth.

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Spica and company looking towards Wicklow Head, Enda Kelly

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