Sagittarius Milky Way (BrettWaller)

Sagittarius Milky Way

This wide-field view spans 15.5 by 11.0 degrees of sky and encompasses the core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius, with north to upper left. Prominently displayed are the intricate lanes of dust that obscure the yellowish glow from innumerable stars in the core of the Milky Way, the broad bright region at upper right center. The bright "star" just to the right of the center of the upper edge of the image is chi Sgr (χ Sagittarii); not resolvable at this scale, it is actually three stars, two of fifth magnitude and one of seventh magnitude. The geometric center of the Milky Way galaxy lies just to the right of chi Sgr.

The prominent reddish object at upper left-center is the Lagoon Nebula, M8. Just left and above it is the bi-color, blue-red Trifid nebula, M20, with the open cluster M21 slightly below and to the left of the Trifid Nebula. The Butterfly Cluster, M6, is visible in the upper right corner, and the prominent object at lower left is the elliptical globular cluster M22, the brightest globular cluster visible from mid-northern latitudes.

The right-triangle of stars in the lower right corner of the image is the well know "spout" of the teapot in Sagittarius, formed by Kaus Media (delta or 19 Sgr), Kaus Australis (epsilon or 20 Sgr), and Alnasl (gamma or 10 Sgr). The top of the teapot, Kaus Borealis (lambda or 22 Sgr), is left of Kaus Media and just above and to the right of M22. The "star" above Kaus Borealis is actually the globular cluster M28. One other Messier object is visible on this image, but is obscure and challenging to find. Globular Cluster M69 is located just above the lower right-hand edge of the image.

The image was acquired with a Canon 450D DSLR camera shooting at 76.8 mm, mounted on a Kenko Sky Memo tracker, and is a composite of 33 subframes each of 120s exposure at ISO 400.

	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	Basic success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	3940027
PixInsight job	n/a
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

Sagittarius Milky Way

Sagittarius Milky Way

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

		...
You have no new notifications.

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

Sagittarius Milky Way

Sagittarius Milky Way

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

Notifications

AstroBin is in READ ONLY mode

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Are you really sure?

Warning!

Warning!

Are you sure?

Report abuse

Slideshow settings

IOTD/TP stats (last [x] days)

Distribution of astrophotographers

Distribution of subject types

Distribution of data sources

Sorry

Sorry

Share

Upload new revision

Upload uncompressed source (XISF/FITS/PSD/TIFF)

Delete image and all its revisions?

Delete original image?

Delete all other versions?

Delete all revisions?

IOTD/TP stats

The following people like this image

The following people bookmarked this image

Warning

Flag malfunctioning thumbnails

Contains

Remove yourself as a collaborator

Plate-solving information