The Milky Way viewed from a fire tower lookout
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During the trek up a 1-mile, 1,200-foot fire service road to reach the lookout, we encountered thunder (but not lightning), a black bear, storm clouds and more. However, later that evening the skies clear and this happened. After verifying the Milky Way was visible with my 12mm lens, I decided to switch to the 50mm lens.
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Image details
| Telescope: | Sony ILCE-6300 | |
| Length: | 50mm | |
| Aperture: | 25mm | |
| F-stop: | f/2.0 | |
| Sessions: | ||
| Captured: | 2023-06-26 to 2023-06-26 | |
| Lights: | ||
| Exposure: | ||
| Ra: | 18h 17m 25.8s | |
| Dec: | -25° 07' 59.632 | |
| Size: | 1559.686 x 1041.862 arcmin | |
| Radius: | 15.63 deg | |
| Scale: | 15.535 arcsec/pixel |
Tags
NGC6611 M16 Part of the constellation Sagittarius (Sgr) NGC6475 M7 NGC6514 M20 NGC6526 NGC6523 M8 IC4715 IC4701 Eagle Nebula Ptolemy's Cluster Small Sgr Star Cloud M24 Lagoon Nebula Trifid Nebula The star Kaus Australis (ε Sgr) 20 Sgr The star Nunki Sadira (σ Sgr) 34 Sgr The star Kaus Media Kaus Meridionalis Media (δ Sgr) 19 Sgr The star Kaus Borealis Al Thalimain (λ Sgr) 22 Sgr The star Alnasl Nushaba Al Nasl Nash El Nasl (γ Sgr) γ2 Sgr 10 Sgr The star Namalsadirah I (φ Sgr) 27 Sgr The star Hamalwarid Arkab (η Sgr) The star Fuyue (G Sco) The star Albaldah Al Baldah (π Sgr) 41 Sgr The star Garafsa (θ Oph) 42 Oph Heybrook Lookout