Sagittarius Region taken by David Ault of Georgetown

Posted by on Nov 4, 2014

Sagittarius Region taken by David Ault of Georgetown

Sagittarius Region taken by David Ault of Georgetown on 10/24/2014 with a Canon 1100D camera through a EF-S 18-55mm @ 18mm F/5.6.

Mount: fixed tripod
Software: PixInsight
Exposure: 30, 15 second exposures @ ISO6400

Since the Milky Way is so evident visually at ESP I thought I would try to capture it with my DSLR. This is my best attempt with Mars sitting right in the middle of the dark rift near the Lagoon Nebula. This image covers all of Sagittarius up into the bottom portion of Aquila. Pluto is also in the field of view and can be found in the raw data, but after re-sizing to post on the forum it gets lost in the noise.

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