Picture of the night sky showing part of Orion. Shot with the Canon 50 mm f/1.8.


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kodaky January 29, 2008, 12:14 PM
in Brasil, we name those three stars at the Orion's belt as "TrĂªs Marias" (Three Marys)
HAL-9000 January 29, 2008, 02:33 PM
I didn't know that! I just checked the german Wikipedia entry to see whether there are also any special names for them over here and I learned that they're also known as "three kings" in Germany.
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