Panorama Photo

This is a wider view of the northern starry sky above the river Scheldt, in early July, about 2 hours before sunrise, when the comet was brightest and easily visible with naked eyes. At left I have connected the stars of the well-known constellation of Ursa Major, the Greater Bear, with very faint lines. Ursa Major belongs to the circumpolar constellations which are always visible above the horizon in our regions somewhere around the Pole star. However, during the short summer nights, Ursa Major looks best because the animal is in natural position with its legs to the Earth. The constellation is not complete on the pano because star Alkaid and double star Alcor, Mizar of the tail as well as Alula Borealis and Alula Australis forming the foot of the hind leg, were out of the view from my balcony. The other bright stars of the constellation are annotated on the pano. Ursa Major is the largest northern constellation and the third largest constellation in the sky. Its brightest stars form the Big Dipper asterism which is one of the most recognizable shapes in the sky. A fivefold extrapolation of the distance between the last 2 stars of the square (Merak-Dubhe) brings you to the Pole star.
A closer look at the comet can be seen in pano 27788 which was shot 22 minutes earlier.
On July 21, I photographed the comet again. It had moved inbetween the Tania and Talitha stars of Ursa Major but I was no longer able to see it with naked eyes.

RIDDLE: one star on this pano is fake, which one?

The fake star is a bonding point of the sensor. I always eliminate these points but I forgot this one. But I will give a hint: look around Auriga!

RIDDLE NOT SOLVED although I can imagine it isn't easy. So I annotated the fake star just above Elnath at 1 o'clock.

Canon Eos M6 with EF-M 18-150 mm, 9 p RAW, 18 mm (28.8 mm KB), iso 400, f 5.6, 15 s, 3500°K, PtguiPro 9721x3887 152.3 MB TIFF, downsized in stepdown 1943>1000>500 TIFF>1251x500 489 KB JPEG