A Sagittarius Starscape NASA APOD Sept 5th 2014

Selected as NASA Picture Of The Day 9/5/2014 Thanks to all at NASA apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140905.html

Captured over 5 nights during the month of August 2014 from my Backyard Observatory in Western Michigan using LRGB & H-Alpha filters with the QHY11 Mono CCD/Takahashi E-180.

The original image is 6676 x 4659 pixels and covers an area of sky equal to 6.8 x 4.75 degrees and includes quite a few Messier objects including M16, M17, M18, M24 and M25.

A much larger 50% annotated view of this image can be seen here
nova.astrometry.net/annotated_full/831359

Total Exposure 10 hours

Image details
Location: DownUnder Observatory, Fremont MI
Date of Shoot: August 2014
H-Alpha 360 min, 9 x 8 min bin 1x1 (for each panel)
LRGB 240 min, 6 x 2 min each bin 1x1 (for each panel)
QHY11 monochrome CCD cooled to -10C
Takahashi E-180 F2.8 Astrograph
Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition Maxim DL
Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack
Post Processing Photoshop CS5

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Taken on: September 3, 2014

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