Extra Credit For Astronomy Class

These rising celestial bodies appear on parade in this time exposure photo I took for extra credit in my high school astronomy class. I shot about 22 exposures on the same film frame-- each about seven minutes apart--from about midnight on the early morning of October 8, 1974, until 2:15 am. At left (brightest object) is a waning gibbous moon. The speck just left of the moon is the planet Saturn. The row of stars at right make up the constellation Orion. This photo, taken along 30th Street Drive SE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is a B&W photo converted into a duotone.