APOD: 2021 January 25 - Southern Cross over Chilean Volcano

Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Monday, January 25, 2021 entitled "Southern Cross over Chilean Volcano."

Image: Southern Cross over Chilean Volcano - Image Credit & Copyright - Tomáš Slovinský


APOD Background:
"Explanation: Have you ever seen the Southern Cross? This famous four-star icon is best seen from Earth's Southern Hemisphere. The featured image was taken last month in Chile and captures the Southern Cross just to the left of erupting Villarrica, one of the most active volcanos in our Solar System. Connecting the reddest Southern Cross star Gacrux through the brightest star Acrux points near the most southern location in the sky: the South Celestial Pole (SCP), around which all southern stars appear to spin as the Earth turns. In modern times, no bright star resides near the SCP, unlike in the north where bright Polaris now appears near the NCP. Extending the Gacrux - Acrux line still further (from about four to about seven times their angular separation) leads near the Small Magellanic Cloud, a bright satellite galaxy of our Milky Way Galaxy. The Southern Cross asterism dominates the Crux constellation, a deeper array of stars that includes four Cepheid variable stars visible to the unaided eye. Just above the volcano in the image, and looking like a dark plume, is the Coalsack Nebula, while the large red star-forming Carina Nebula is visible on the upper left."

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Southern Cross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9gLjEGJrw

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Keep hoping to get South of the Equator to see this for myself.
Good morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price

Very impressive Maj William W. 'Bill' Price.