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With this shot, we are
finishing up the images taken during the summer shooting season
for this year and will be starting to post fall and winter targets.
Located on the borders of Sagittarius and Serpens, this brilliant
part of the summer Milky Way has bright star clouds, dark dusty
patches, and a few pink hydrogen nebulas. In the center is the
strangely shaped dark dust cloud called LDN379, shaped like a
ships anchor. Upper right is the red nebula the Eagle Nebula,
this is the object which the famous Hubble shot of the "Pillars
of Creation" were taken. (too small to see here). Just below
is the Swan Nebula. In the lower right corner is an incredible
star cloud - M24. It is very bright and can easily be seen with
the naked eye on any clear night. This photo is taken with a
Zeiss Milvus 135mm f/2 camera lens for 2 hours of exposure.
One of the most spectacular
areas of the summer Milky Way can be found here on the border
of Sagittarius and Serpens. The dark anchor shaped dark nebula
just above center is LDN379 (Barnard 312) with M16 and M17 off
to the right. In the lower right corner is M24 a spectacularlly
bright target surrounded by dark nebular lanes.
Technical Data: Zeiss
Milvus 135mm f/2, ASI2600mm, RGB = 2 hours total, Happy Jack,
Az.
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