Southern Milkyway

 

        The southern section of the Milkyway Galaxy is full of delicate structure and object of interest.    The brightest stars include Altair to the bottom left (in the constellation Aquila) and the teapot of Sagitarius is to the lower right.  Several popular red emission nebula are sprinkled throughout the brightest sections to the right where the center of the galaxy is located.  The dark nebula provide particularly unusual patterns and make for interesting objects to photograph as well.

 
Optics Camera Film Exposure Mount/Guiding Scanning Processing Location Date
28 mm f2.8 @ f4 Nikon F Provia 400F 45 min. G11 piggybacked on 10" SCT; unguided Minolta Scan Dual II Levels/Curves/linear gradient in PS7 Inyokern, CA 6/19/04

Comments: Very windy night.  Lucky even this shot turned out!