Scutum Star Cloud

[iksose7]

Took this about a week or two ago in the early hours, not too long before the skies started getting light. I had spent the previous hours of the night capturing data on the blue horse head to try and make up for last years atrocity! But it looks like i will need many more hours to do it any justice and the skies just refuse to cooperate.

So anyway, this is 35 minutes on the star cloud. An interesting area of sky, E.Barnard called it the gem of the milky way apparently. But i'm pretty sure a whole bunch of objects could be classed as such!

And a labeled version with a few of the many clusters in the area, both globs and open

 

Exposure Details:

8* 300secs, f3.2 ISO 800, 50mm

Camera: Canon 600Da

Lens: Canon 50mm 1.8

Mount: NEQ6

Thanks for looking

[wxsatuser]

Thats a very nice widefield.

[iksose7]

Thanks Mike, i'm glad it turned out ok. Otherwise that whole night would have been wasted!

[Pete Presland]

cracking image, so many stars!

[iksose7]

Thanks Pete!

I shot the cloud last year at 200mm and there really is so many stars! The stars are a bit trailed in the image and nowadays i could do much better with the processing but you get a good idea of the amount of them. I was just poking around for the data to do a re-process but looks like i forgot to back it up before i lost everything on my old laptop! 

[laser_jock99]

Nice work- it's an excellent area of sky to image. Like you say just so many stars and dark nebulae.

[iksose7]

Thank you laserjock, it sure is a busy area! I would love to re image it with the 200mm at some point.

[jabeoo1]

Those dark lanes are just unreal. Lovely work sir..........from someone that knows nothing about imaging at all

[iksose7]

Those dark lanes are just unreal. Lovely work sir..........from someone that knows nothing about imaging at all

Haha and many thanks to you good sir, glad you like the image