Imaging telescopes or lenses: Canon 300mm f/4.0 L
Imaging cameras: Canon Eos6da
Mounts: iOptron 3200
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Skywatcher 9x50 finder
Guiding cameras: Lacerta MGEN
Software: Photoshop · Pleiades Astrophoto, S.L. Pix Insight
Dates:Aug. 23, 2017
Frames: 74x120"
Integration: 2.5 hours
Avg. Moon age: 1.83 days
Avg. Moon phase: 3.76%
Astrometry.net job: 2491669
RA center: 17h 27' 57"
DEC center: -26° 27' 57"
Pixel scale: 6.894 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 210.293 degrees
Field radius: 4.214 degrees
Resolution: 3660x2444
Locations: Hakos Guest Farm, 100km past Windhoek, Namibia
Data source: Traveller
the Pipe nebula is just the most prominent part of the dark clouds shading the central bulge of our milky way. The numbers of stars is uncountable, and so you find just a few objects marked on the annotated image, some small globulars that hide in the glare. The detailed and delicate structures of the obscuring matter is simply stunning.
Canon Eos6da at Iso1250, Canon 300mm L at open f/4
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