Antares

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Antares is a red supergiant with 12x the mass of the sun about 550 light years from the sun.
Telescope:   Stellina
Length:   400mm
Aperture:   80mm
F-stop:   f/5.0
Sessions:   1
Captured:   2021-07-11 to 2021-07-11
Lights:   6
Exposure:   1
Total exposure:   6 s
Ra:   16h 29m 27.4s
Dec:   -26° 25' 18.045
Size:   63.455 x 42.965 arcmin
Radius:   0.639 deg
Scale:   1.239 arcsec/pixel
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I captured this target from the top of Heybrook Lookout in Index, WA (Bortle 3).I only spent about 20 minutes on Antares, a region that deserves hours of exposure. But even with the limited time, I captured more details than ever before, trumping the hours of filtered shooting through light polluted skies from my house.
I took advantage of low horizons in a dark site to capture this close-up of the elusive Rho Ophiuchi system with bright yellow Antares, purple-bluish Alniya and the M4 and NGC6144 clusters.

Objects in frame:

The star Antares (αSco) Antares
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