Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  Contains:  Hourglass nebula  ·  IC 1274  ·  IC 1275  ·  IC 1284  ·  IC 4685  ·  IC 4715  ·  Lagoon nebula  ·  M 20  ·  M 21  ·  M 23  ·  M 8  ·  NGC 6469  ·  NGC 6494  ·  NGC 6514  ·  NGC 6523  ·  NGC 6526  ·  NGC 6530  ·  NGC 6531  ·  NGC 6544  ·  NGC 6546  ·  NGC 6568  ·  NGC 6595  ·  Part of the constellation Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  The star 11Sgr  ·  The star 14Sgr  ·  The star 15Sgr  ·  The star 16Sgr  ·  The star 3Sgr  ·  The star 4Sgr  ·  The star 7Sgr  ·  And 3 more.
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Cosmic Seashore, Richard S. Wright Jr.
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Cosmic Seashore

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Cosmic Seashore

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Taken at this years Texas Star Party (2018), this was first light with a new QHY 128c full sized sensor color camera. I stopped the lens down from f/2.8 to f/4 using a circular aperture mask. This makes the camera lens operate more like a really short (200mm) refractor.

The Triffid and Lagoon nebulas are shown here, and the dense clouds of stars surrounding the area in the Milky Way. The name of the a Lagoon, and the appearance of the star clouds reminds me of a sea shore in some ways... a sandy sea shore where very grain of sand is a star.

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Cosmic Seashore, Richard S. Wright Jr.