u/sidereal-studio

Happy Birthday Pete! This is an image stitched together from archival NASA WISE satellite images, and shows the sky directly above London on May 19th, 1945 at around 3pm.

On an May afternoon in London, 1945, as war in Europe reached its final days, this patch of sky above the northern hemisphere held a quiet richness. The region spans parts of Perseus and Auriga, constellations that have guided navigators and storytellers for millennia. What appears as an ordinary swath of stars reveals a surprisingly active corner of our galactic neighborhood, packed with evolved stars in their twilight years and distant galaxies peering back across millions of light-years of space.

Happy birthday my man! This is a collage of images from NASA's WISE satellite archive, showing the stars directly overhead when Trent was born.

I wasn't sure on the 7 am -- I think that's from an advertisement back in the day and might not be right. This is an image from a NASA satellite (the WISE satellite). If anyone knows a more accurate time, I can remake this! Happy Birthday!