Back garden, lit by moonlight
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The photograph on this page of Back garden, lit by moonlight by Hywel Williams as part of the Geograph project.
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Back garden, lit by moonlight
Image: © Hywel Williams Taken: 16 Sep 2005
This is the back garden of a house near Ammanford, lit entirely by moonlight and some ambient street light. The house is crowned by the "Plough" constellation. Note the second top star of the pan-handle. Even at this resolution, you can clearly see two stars in the picture - Alcor and Mizar, one of the few binary star systems visible to the human eye, used as an ancient eye test - you had good vision if you could see both with the naked eye.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.795612
Longitude
-3.964814