Sagittarius Star Cloud / M24 & a Meteor (James R Potts)

Sagittarius Star Cloud / M24 & a Meteor

I captured this a few nights ago and didn't do a whole lot of editing as there is not a lot of nebulosity or galaxies or other cool targets to pull out and it isn't the most spectacular area of space to capture, but in reading up on it I learned some interesting stuff. Seeing was good, but it was windy so I took fairly short exposures (LRGB). Unfortunately, clouds blew in and I had to delete a lot of green and almost all of my blue filter images. I don't think there is a lot of blue in this area, so I went with what I captured.

Of the 110 objects cataloged by Messier, 107 fall into five general categories: stellar remnants, star-forming nebulae, open clusters, globular clusters and galaxies. Two of the remaining three are considered mistakes: the double star M40 and the quadruple star M73. The 3rd object (M24) located in the plane of our galaxy lies the densest collection of stars the entire sky has to offer. But unlike the other stars that make up objects in the Messier catalogue, this isn’t a cluster we’re looking at, but a glimpse at one of our galaxy’s spiral arms (Sagittarius Spiral Arm), seen from our vantage point over 10,000 light-years away. The NASA website says: "It's a gap in nearby, obscuring interstellar dust clouds that allows a view of the distant stars in the Sagittarius spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy."

Regarding the Meteor I just happened to notice it in reviewing my images, it was one of the green frames. I was able to use one of my RGB images to layer on top to give the image some color, but not the Meteor.

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Description: I thought this was cool capturing a meteor entering our atmosphere and then burning up.

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