From the Scorpion to the Shield (Terry Hancock)

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From the Scorpion to the Shield

Stretching from Scutum the Shield through to Scorpius the Scorpion this collaboration between Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock is one of the latest captures from GrandMesaObservatory.com in Western Colorado during the month of June 2018 over three nights using the QHY367C Full Frame CMOS with the Rokinon 135mm F2.0 lens @ F4.0

139 individual frames were captured to make up this 3 panel mosaic of the Central Region of The Milky Way covering 4 constellations and an area of over 35 x 10 degrees of sky, containing 12 Messier objects, many open and globular clusters, dark, reflection and emission nebulae.

Annotated View here: www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/41675771640/in/photost...

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Terry Hancock downunderobservatory.com

Tom Masterson Transient Astronomer

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

Dates: June 10,11,17 th

RGGB 139 x 2 min

Camera: QHY367C

FOV 36 x 10 degrees

Gain 2850, Offset 170, Calibrated with flat, Dark & Bias

Optics: Rokinon 135mm F2 Telephoto Lens @ F4

Focusing: David Lane's Reveal Focus Filter

Mount: Piggyback on 12" RC, Paramount ME

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL5

Pre Processed in Pixinsight

Post Processed in Photoshop

Constellations

Scutum

Serpens

Sagittarius

Scorpius

Messier Objects

M6 Butterfly Cluster

m7 Open Cluster

M8 Lagoon Nebula

M20 Trifid nebula

M28 globular Cluster

M17 Omega Nebula

M18 Open cluster

M16 Eagle Nebula

M25 Open Cluster

M23 Open cluster

M26 Open cluster

M11 Wild Duck Cluster

M21 Open Cluster

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