Starry Night Castle

The tantalizing Pleiades [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071122.html ] star cluster seems to lie just beyond the trees above a dark castle tower [ http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photos.asp?ID=3001176 ] in this dramatic view [ http://www.clearskies.se/Castle%20ruin%20and%20Holmes.htm ] of The World at Night [ http://www.twanight.org/ ]. Recorded earlier this month, the starry sky also features bright star Aldebaran [ http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/ aldebaran.html ] below the Pleiades and a small, faint, fuzzy cloud otherwise known as Comet Holmes [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071121.html ] near picture center at the top of the field. Starry Night Castle might be [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050218.html ] an appropriate name for the medieval castle ruin in the foreground. But its traditional name is Mörby Castle [ http://www.castlesontheweb.com/photoarchive/ index.php?action=album&id=1421&sessionid= ], found north of Stockholm, near lake Skedviken in Norrtälje, Sweden.

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