Pipe Nebula (Bruce Rohrlach)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph) · Contains: Eagle Nebula · IC 4592 · IC 4604 · IC 4701 · IC 4715 · Lagoon Nebula · M 16 · M 24 · M 8 · NGC 6523 · NGC 6526 · NGC 6611 · Part of the constellation Ophiuchus (Oph) · Part of the constellation Sagittarius (Sgr) · Part of the constellation Scorpius (Sco) · Part of the constellation Serpens (Ser) · Small Sgr Star Cloud · The star Antares (αSco) · The star Dschubba (δSco) · The star Graffias (β1Sco) · The star Kaus Borealis (λSgr) · The star Lesath (υSco) · The star Media (δSgr) · The star Sabik (ηOph) · The star Shaula (λSco) · The star εSco · The star τSco · rho Oph Nebula

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Pipe Nebula

The Galactic Core - the central bulge of our galaxy photographed with a 50mm Nikon lens 2 nights ago from Ventnor, Phillip Island.
This feature studded region includes the Pipe Nebula in the centre of the image, dispersing “smoke plumes” out of the bowl of the pipe, thick trains of galactic dust that obscure/block starlight from stars behind the dark nebula. The dark lane along the axis of the Milky Way’s bulge is known as the Great Rift, a vast cloud of galactic dust that lies between the Orion and Sagittarius arms of the Milky Way, obscuring stars in the galactic core behind the dust lane. In the centre of this dust lane lies the Lagoon nebula, glowing red in true colour due to vast clouds of hydrogen gas.

Below and left of the Lagoon nebula is the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud, the diffuse white patch within the Great Rift. Further down and left of the Sagittarius Star Cloud the 2 small red patches are the Swan and Eagle nebulas (the latter is the image on my Profile Cover viewed at 1000mm focal length).
The vertical dark dust lanes extending upward (from just left of the Pipe Nebula) extend to the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex in the region of the orange supergiant star Antares (the heart of the Scorpion in Scorpio) in the upper part of the image.

Finally, the supermassive black hole (with a mass of around 4 million solar masses) that resides at the very centre of our galaxy, lies approximately midway between the base of the dark Pipe Nebula and the right hand edge of this image (behind the Great Rift).
Nikon D610, Nikon AF Nikor 50mm f1.8 shot at f2.0 (untracked). Stacked in APP, enhanced in Lightroom.

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