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I have a picture I took last year, and when I looked closely at the slide, I saw stars in the sky. Usually at my location stars are invisible at night, because of generally poor weather and a lot of light pollution from the city around me, so I was surprised to see them captured on a slide, especially for a photo taken at dusk. I know they are stars, though, because they all show a little bit of motion blur towards the west, and this was an eight-second exposure on a fixed tripod. Anyway, I tried looking at a sky chart from Heavens Above for the time and place, but I either cannot read it or I cannot find the stars I see in the photo. Can anyone help me figure out which stars or planets are visible in the photo? The photo is here: http://www.mxsmanic.com/testimages/stars.jpg As marked on the photo, the location is N 48° 51' 05" E 2° 21' 07" and the time was probably 8:48 UTC (10:48 local time), if I can trust the clock on the cathedral. The date was July 26, 2002, and the camera is pointed to an azimuth of about 315°. How do I rotate or orient a sky chart to match what I see in this photo? I thought maybe the big stars to the left of the church spire looked like Ursa Major, but I don't really know. Note that I've emphasized all the stars on this tiny version of the photo (they would be too small to see at this size of reproduction otherwise). -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly.
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