Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  Contains:  IC 1283  ·  IC 1284  ·  IC 4715  ·  M 24  ·  NGC 6589  ·  NGC 6590  ·  NGC 6603  ·  Small Sgr Star Cloud
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Sh2-37 (IC1284) has many friends in the heart of the Milky Way, Charles Bracken
Sh2-37 (IC1284) has many friends in the heart of the Milky Way
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Sh2-37 (IC1284) has many friends in the heart of the Milky Way

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Sh2-37 (IC1284) has many friends in the heart of the Milky Way, Charles Bracken
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Sh2-37 (IC1284) has many friends in the heart of the Milky Way

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Sagittarius is such a great area. This image (centered about 3 degrees south of M17) contains one Messier, three Sharpless, two van den Bergh, and several NGC , LBN, and LDN objects. The star of the show is Sh2-37 (aka IC1283/4) at center. The two small reflection nebulae are vdB 118 and 119. Most of huge M24 is visible at the bottom as the dozen or so bright stars (M24 extends off the image to the lower left). The tight open cluster at center bottom is NGC6603. The little patch of H-alpha red toward the lower left that is almost lost in the Milky Way–that’s Sh2-39. And the nebulosity at upper left is Sh2-35.The data for this image were captured by Charles Pevsner, one of the imagers with whom I share this scope at DeepSkyChile.

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Sh2-37 (IC1284) has many friends in the heart of the Milky Way, Charles Bracken