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Celestial bodies around tail of Scorpius

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Released date: Jun 26, 2016


Brief Description   This image shows you a mosaic field of eastern Scorpius equivalent to the tail of scorpion. Although this region has comparatively lower culmination altitude at Japan, includes the galactic center and several H-alpha emitting nebulae are distributed. In left of image larger-scaled open clusters of M6 & M7 are paralleled, in center you can see two reddish nebulae of the War and Peace Nebula (NGC6357) and the Cat's paw Nebula (NGC6334) are floating.

Photography Condition
Date & Time... Jun 3 2016, from 23:13 to 24:27 JST(+0900)
   6 shots composed with 4min. exposed
   Mosaic of 3 flames
Optical... BORG60ED with a conversion lens (f=245mm, F4.1)
  with LPS-P1 Light-pollution suppression filter
  Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Digital Camera... Canon EOS 6D (Remodeled)
  (ISO1600, recorded in 14bit CCD-RAW)
Location... Furudono town, Fukushima pref.




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