Souvenir from Space Day

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Last night I joined the space day, I am from Indonesia and the day of space is celebrated on last night (07 August 2017). On that day people in Indonesia is recommended to turn off the lights at 20.00 pm. until 21:00 pm.

I took part to capture the beauty of the sky that night, albeit somewhat disappointingly, because the condition of the sky last night was not so dark due to 2 factors, the first not everyone turned off the lights of his house, and the moon before the full moon, so the rays of the sun that bounced off the moon Generated by stars.

But it's okay, I still managed to immortalize the constellation of scorpio stars.


Scorpio (Scorpion) is one of the constellations of the zodiac. In Javanese tradition, this constellation is known as "Banyakangrem (Geese incubate)".

This constellation is between Libra to the west and Sagittarius to the east and is one of the great constellations located in the southern hemisphere near the center of the Milky Way. As one of the zodiac constellations, it is bypassed by an imaginary ecliptic line. It is easily recognizable from a series of stars that form like a large S or A in the southern hemisphere.

There are some stars in this constellation. that is :

1. α Sco (Antares, Cor Scorpii / Qalb al-Aqrab / Vespertilo)
2. λ Sco (Shaula)
3. θ Sco (Sargas, Girtab)
4. δ Sco (Dschubba, Al Jabba, Iclarkrau)
5. E Sco (Wei)
6. κ Sco (Girtab)
7. β1 Sco (Acrab, Elacrab, Graffias, Grafias, Grassias)
8. υ Sco (Lesath, Lesuth)
9. τ Sco (Alniyat, Al Niyat)
10. π Sco (Vrischika)
11. σ Sco (Alniyat, Al Niyat)
12. ι1 Sco (Apollyon)
13. μ1 Sco (Denebakrab)
14. G Sco (Basanismus, Chuen Shwo)
15. ω1 Sco (Jabhat al Akrab)
16. ν Sco (Jabbah, Jabah)
17. ω2 Sco (Jabhat al Akrab)

Explanation of the constellation of scorpio:
The constellation Scorpio has the abbreviation "Sco", symbolized by the scorpion animal, the position of this constellation is approximately in the coordinates of Right Ascension 16j 53m 15d and Declination -30° 44 '12 ", the area is 496,783 square degrees. The bright star is about 13 stars, with the brightest star Antares (α Sco) (0.96m). In this constellation also often occur meteor shower, the meteor Alpha Scorpiids and Omega Scorpiids. This constellation is adjacent to 7 constellations (Sagittarius, Ofiukus, Libra, Lupus, Norma, Ara, Corona Australis)