ORION'S PATH

     Seeing how today NASA just landed another rover on Mars I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to talk about the final frontier. I was up at around 1 AM and trying out long exposures of the moon. After a while, I got tired of it. I then looked around and saw Orion's belt. Ever since I was young I was always intrigued by that constellation. I locked my camera on my tripod and held the shutter open for about 30 seconds. My result is what you see above.

     Seeing how the Orion's belt looks like three shooting stars in the sky, it reminds me of what I learned as young boy intrigued by the starts. Which is that the stars are not moving, we are. I actually managed to capture a small fraction of Orion's path in the sky. But if you zoom in closely, what lies beyond is even more interesting.

     If you look closely you can see distant stars not visible to the naked eye. Stars of different colors, white, red, blue, green, giving away the identity of what type of stars they are. And seeing how they are completely still while Orion's belt shows its path. This shows how far those stars really are, and how close the belt is. Photography is are way into the parts of the world not yet discovered.