Constellations Gallery

Grus Constellation

Grus Constellation Grus Constellation with constellation lines

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Grus (latin for crane) is a southern constellation. The constellation was one of twelve constellations created by Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597, and it first appeared in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603.

Lens 50mm
Exposure 3 minutes with filter
Camera Canon 10D
Date Sept 2006
Location Wairarapa, New Zealand