Setting Northern Cross

Part 2 Sceneries in dark night

Date & Time:	Sep 19 1998, 24:47 JST(+0900), 26min. Exp.
Optical:	SMC TAKMAR f=105mm F2.4, Aperture: F4.0
Camera:	PENTAX 67
Film:	Ektachrome E200
Location:	Subashiri halfway to Mt. Fuji, Shizuoka pref.

After midnight of September, I captured the Cygnus, often called the Northern Cross, sinking in northwest skies. Thin Milky Way was crossing the frame diagonally, a star with 2nd magnitude in brightness at the head of Cygnus, Albireo, went down beyond the forest slowly and quietly.

Rising Orion over Sagami Plain

Rising Jupiter over Gotemba city

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