Another night shot from Lake Louise. You can see the constellation of Orion right above Fairview Mountain and the Pleiades star cluster a little higher and to the right. The brightest star you can see right at the bottom is Sirius – the brightest star (besides our sun of course). That’s pretty much the extent of my constellation knowledge (for this part of the sky anyway). If there are any astonomy or mythology buffs out there, feel free to chime in.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Another night shot from Lake Louise. You can see the constellation of Orion right above Fairview Mountain and the Pleiades star cluster a little higher and to the right. The brightest star you can see right at the bottom is Sirius – the brightest star (besides our sun of course). That’s pretty much the extent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[732,726,741,87,740],"tags":[818,296,811,824,816,817,127,298,820,821,813,819,810,812,814,809,823,822,815],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-2","category-mountain-2","category-night-photography","category-photo-of-the-day","category-winter-2","tag-astronomy","tag-banff-national-park","tag-brightest-star","tag-constellation","tag-constellation-knowledge","tag-fairview-mountain","tag-lake","tag-lake-louise","tag-literature","tag-mythology","tag-mythology-buffs","tag-myths","tag-myths-and-folktales","tag-night-sky","tag-pleiades-star","tag-pleiades-star-cluster","tag-sirius","tag-star","tag-star-cluster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t