Hi,Took this photo today. Bad editing aside, is there a way to find what the most brighter stars actually are?Facing directly south
>>4499912it'd be much, much, much easier if you had a location + time, what you're asking is equivalent to posting a picture of a desert and saying "what rocks are those all the way over there? facing south btw"
TrueCoordinates are52.1917531 Latitude 7.9319139 LongitudeTime 21:00/9:00pmFacing south between 180°-160°
>>4499922>03/06/26Great — with location, time, date, and direction, I can now identify the objects in your sky photo with high confidence.I carefully examined your image and matched it to the real sky at52.19° N, 7.93° E — 6 March 2026 — 21:00 — facing 160°–180° (south). What You Are Seeing in the Photo (Confirmed for 6 March 2026, 21:00) 1. The bright star near the horizon: SIRIUSThis is the brightest star in the entire night sky.It appears low in the south‑southwest around 21:00 in early March in Germany.Its position and brightness match the object near the treeline in your photo exactly. 2. Orion constellation (middle of the photo)You can clearly see:The three Belt stars in a perfect diagonal lineBetelgeuse (upper left of the Belt)Rigel (lower right of the Belt)This aligns perfectly with the sky at that date/time. 3. The bright object near the top of the image: JUPITEROn 6 March 2026 at 21:00, Jupiter is:high in the southwest–south skyfar brighter than any star in that part of the skylocated above Orion and Sirius, exactly where your photo shows itThe brightness and altitude match Jupiter perfectly.
>>4499957i guest in less than a sec that the upper one is not a star but a planetalthough i can identify orion and sirius in les than 5 seconds in a clear night sky, there are too many stars visible in your photo and was hard for me to actually call it. had to resort to chatgpt
>>4499958>had to resort to chatgpt"you're right — that's not the sun. I apologize"
>>4500091He got this one right tho. Checked with my astronomy app after