Southern Milky Way Gallery (Deep South, Scorpius Area)
Copyright © 2004-2012, by Dick Locke.  All Rights Reserved.  Contact and Image Use Information 

The Star Cloud Milky Way area is covered on this page

2010 Southern Milky Way Mosaic

 

The image above consists of 63*4 minute (4.2 hours total exposure) DSLR frames using a 55mm camera lens on the Canon 20Da DSLR combined to form a Mosaic.  Then I blended in additional prime focus (telescope) images.  More details and more blends below, and for labels of major objects and links to through-the-scope pictures.   Chanel is using this image; see alternate version here.

 

See more from the April 2010 West Texas Astro Pics

 

Scorpius Area Milky Way Locator (Basic)

 

Click here for the mouseover chart of this area, including the Barnard Dark Nebulae

 

Scorpius Wide Prime Blends

I re-blended this one to better bring out the telescope shots, which included the red nebulae and dark nebula.

IC 4628, lower Scorpius	Cat's Paw Nebula, NGC 6334 plus NGC 6357
2010 Dark Nebula Pictures	M19, M62 are on the Southern Clusters Page
M7, Ptolemy's Cluster	Wide Angle Astrophotos
Star Cloud (M24) Pictures	M6
Antares and Rho Ophiuchi Area	2010 West Texas Astro Pics
A Visual Index to all the cool objects around M8 and M20 is here.	Milky Way with Pipe Nebula
Wide Angle Astrophotos	Other Pictures from the Davis Mountains are here

Old Film Work:

Check below for some real colorful images of  the Spring/Summer Milky Way area at your choice of sizes.  Kind of crazy colors on these...

Milky Way Dark Nebula

Above: Some of the Southern Milky Way Galaxy by Dick Locke, May 2004, Davis Mountains, TX.  Check out the detail in the dark dust lanes, especially in the lower right part of this photograph.  This is looking towards the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, generally towards Scorpius, the scorpion, and Sagittarius.    Davis Mountains, TX, May 17, 2004.  Nikon F2 camera, Nikon 55mm f2.8  Lens @f2.8, Kodak PJ 400 film, piggyback, STV auto guider, Losmandy GM-11,  Negative Scan, Nikon Coolscan IV ED, Processed in Photoshop .  Check out additional and more recent pictures of this area by clicking on the items below.