Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  10 Hygiea  ·  11 Tau  ·  11.60  ·  12.60  ·  13.91  ·  14.95  ·  16 Tau  ·  17 Tau  ·  18 Tau  ·  20 Tau  ·  21 Tau  ·  22 Tau  ·  23 Tau  ·  24 Tau  ·  25 eta Tau  ·  26 Tau  ·  27 Tau  ·  28 Tau  ·  32 Tau  ·  33 Tau  ·  416 Vaticana  ·  596 Scheila  ·  7 Tau  ·  88 Thisbe  ·  9 Tau  ·  Alcyone  ·  Atlas  ·  Celaeno  ·  Electra  ·  IC 349  ·  And 21 more.
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I am blessed with property out in West Texas with Bortle skies bordering between 3 and 4.

The Winter arm of or galaxy is very well defined on a moonless night while the summer core cast faint shadows during new moon. It has been a while that I have posted due to life demands and crummy weather. However this night was spectacular! New moon, completely clear and only in the 50s for low temps. The is a 130mm Sigma Foom lens on a Canon 6D MK II. The mount is Skywatcher Star adventurer and polar aligned by polar scope only. The big thing here is I let Arsenal do all the work on the camera to focus, take the shot and all I did was some minor post processing. This is a single 20 second shot at 20000 ISO.

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