Night Sky Photography -- 04-03-2022 -- Constellation Canis Major "The Greater Dog" & The Winter Triangle

Good evening, fellow Stargazers!

This evening I was able to capture a really good shot of all the major stars of the Constellation Canis Major "The Greater Dog" low in the southern sky about an hour, or so, after sunset. The second photo is a great shot of the Winter Triangle asterism.

Finding the Greater Dog is easy if you know where to look. Locate the three stars of the Winter Triangle: Betelgeuse (in the Constellation Orion), Procyon (in the Constellation Canis Minor), and Sirius -- the brightest star in Canis Major, as well as the brightest star in the night sky seen from Earth.

According to the stories, Canis Major and Canis Minor are the hunting dogs of Orion, and the Winter Triangle connects them.

The Winter Triangle surrounds most of the very faint Constellation Monoceros, although its brightest stars are fourth magnitude and hardly noticeable to the naked eye without a really good telescope lens.