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Sagittarius Star Cloud (M24), Andrew Gutierrez
Sagittarius Star Cloud (M24)
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Sagittarius Star Cloud (M24)

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Sagittarius Star Cloud (M24), Andrew Gutierrez
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Sagittarius Star Cloud (M24)

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RGB:  20x30s each

Mauna Kea, Hawaii
(at 13,400 ft, just below the summit)

My second night at the Mauna Kea volcano during our family vacation.  Technically, Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in the world measured from base to peak, though 20,000 ft of it is under water.  Unlike my first evening, the Rangers were allowing people up to the summit, so I enjoyed both sunset and sunrise above the clouds.  While the Rangers made everyone leave the summit shortly after sunset, they didn't seem to mind that I set up for the night just a few hundred feet below the summit (in a large construction lot composed of crushed cinder rock).

This was my first of 3 targets for the night.  I had several hours of broadband time before moonrise caused me to switch to narrowband.  I thought I'd warm up with a simple RGB of this dense patch of stars.

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Sagittarius Star Cloud (M24), Andrew Gutierrez

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