Milky Way with Pipe Nebula

Milky Way - Pipe Nebula
Davis Mountains, TX, May 30, 2000
Photo by Dick Locke
17 minute exposure (unguided)
Piggyback on Losmandy GM-8
Pentax K1000, 50mm f1.4 lens at f2.8
Kodak PJ-400
Negative Scan, Minolta Scan Dual
Processed in Photoshop
Note: This is the richest area of the Milky Way visible from the Northern Hemisphere. Objects of interest include the Anatares region of Scorpius on the lower right, the Pipe Nebula in the lower center (looks like a pipe with smoke rising out of it), and the Lagoon, Trifid, Omega, and Eagle Nebulae (running up the spine of the Milky Way). I've identified some of these objects on my annotated pipe nebula.

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