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Galactic Gems
Galactic Gems
Pascal


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Camera: Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D
Lens: Konica Minolta AF 50mm f/1.4
Location: Kariani, Greece
Date: May 13, 2007
Aperture: f/2
ISO: 200
Shutter: 547 sec (total)
Galleries: Sky, Astrophotography
Date Uploaded: Jan 25, 2008

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 Three exposures (280s, 141s, 126s) were stacked and processed.
Camera (KM 5D) was piggy-back mounted on Celestron C8 SCT (mounted on Celestron CG5 AS-GT).
The view is towards the galactic center and includes a part of the Sagittarius constellation area.
Well known deep sky objects lie here such us M24 Star Cloud, M8 (Lagoon Nebula), M20 (Triffid Nebula), M17 (Swan Nebula) and many others such as M21, M22, M23, M25, M28, NGC6440, NGC6469, NGC6546, NGC6568, NGC6567, NGC6537....

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