by Ann » Fri Nov 26, 2010 5:24 am
I really like Joshua Bury's image of the Teapot in Sagittarius, although the Teapot itself is the least interesting part of the image, at least to me! No, I prefer the amazing wealth of deep-sky objects and individual interesting massive hot stars that he has captured in his large, deep, beautifully colored image. Starting at the bottom edge of the picture, can you see a line of four stars running diagonally from upper right to lower left? Behind those stars is NGC 6375 (
http://spider.seds.org/spider/Misc/Pics/n6357rp.jpg) centered on cluster Pismis 24 (
http://astroart.co.uk/images/Star%20clu ... y%2020.jpg) which contains two of the most massive stars in the Milky Way.
Moving upwards a bit you can see famous star cluster M6 and M7. M6 (
http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard/Pagim ... 0-cp10.jpg) sits right in the middle of the thick dark dust lane and is easy to see. M7 (
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/285 ... 166359.jpg) on the other hand, is seen against a relatively dust-free background of distant yellow stars, and looks like a bluish smudge against all the yellowness.
Then nothing much happens before we reach the Lagoon Nebula (
http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/m ... ez_big.jpg), the very obvious pink splotch in the dust lane. The pinkishness of the Lagoon extends to the left, where it blooms into a delightful combination of emission and reflection nebula centered on NGC 6559:
http://www.cosmotography.com/images/small_ngc6559.jpg). Isn't it lovely?
Above the Lagoon is the Trifid Nebula and M 21, which is a young cluster of blue stars. I just couldn't find a good image of the Trifid Nebula and M 21, so I'll just post this link to an image of the Lagoon, the pink and blue Trifid Nebula above the Lagoon and M 21 to the upper left of the Trifid Nebula:
http://www.utahskies.org/report/20010720/m8_m20_l.JPG.
Above The Lagoon and the Trifid Nebulas and M 21 is a combination of emission and reflection nebulosity called NGC 6595:
http://www.astrophotos.net/images/nebul ... 09rewk.jpg.
An now we come to the large bright patch of relatively young stars in the dust lane, called the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud or Messier 24:
http://www.oneminuteastronomer.com/wp-c ... ier-24.jpg. In this picture you can see NGC 6595 at bottom and the magnificent Omega Nebula, M 17, at top. Another pink patch close to M 24 is M 16, the Eagle Nebula:
http://www.odec.ca/projects/2007/sarl7c ... Nebula.jpg.
Well, what a collection of links!!! I just wanted to say that there is so much to see in this part of the sky, and Joshua Bury does the sights delightful justice in his large mosaic (I assume it is a mosaic)!
Ann
I really like Joshua Bury's image of the Teapot in Sagittarius, although the Teapot itself is the least interesting part of the image, at least to me! No, I prefer the amazing wealth of deep-sky objects and individual interesting massive hot stars that he has captured in his large, deep, beautifully colored image. Starting at the bottom edge of the picture, can you see a line of four stars running diagonally from upper right to lower left? Behind those stars is NGC 6375 ([url]http://spider.seds.org/spider/Misc/Pics/n6357rp.jpg[/url]) centered on cluster Pismis 24 ([url]http://astroart.co.uk/images/Star%20cluster,emission%20nebula%20NGC%206357%2016%20by%2020.jpg[/url]) which contains two of the most massive stars in the Milky Way.
Moving upwards a bit you can see famous star cluster M6 and M7. M6 ([url]http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard/Pagim/SGU-M6-TOA-STL-RVB-0900-cp10.jpg[/url]) sits right in the middle of the thick dark dust lane and is easy to see. M7 ([url]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/2850130305_de67166359.jpg[/url]) on the other hand, is seen against a relatively dust-free background of distant yellow stars, and looks like a bluish smudge against all the yellowness.
Then nothing much happens before we reach the Lagoon Nebula ([url]http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod/image/0707/lagoon_fernandez_big.jpg[/url]), the very obvious pink splotch in the dust lane. The pinkishness of the Lagoon extends to the left, where it blooms into a delightful combination of emission and reflection nebula centered on NGC 6559: [url]http://www.cosmotography.com/images/small_ngc6559.jpg[/url]). Isn't it lovely?
Above the Lagoon is the Trifid Nebula and M 21, which is a young cluster of blue stars. I just couldn't find a good image of the Trifid Nebula and M 21, so I'll just post this link to an image of the Lagoon, the pink and blue Trifid Nebula above the Lagoon and M 21 to the upper left of the Trifid Nebula: [url]http://www.utahskies.org/report/20010720/m8_m20_l.JPG[/url].
Above The Lagoon and the Trifid Nebulas and M 21 is a combination of emission and reflection nebulosity called NGC 6595: [url]http://www.astrophotos.net/images/nebula/ngc%206595-lrgb-09rewk.jpg[/url].
An now we come to the large bright patch of relatively young stars in the dust lane, called the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud or Messier 24: [url]http://www.oneminuteastronomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Messier-24.jpg[/url]. In this picture you can see NGC 6595 at bottom and the magnificent Omega Nebula, M 17, at top. Another pink patch close to M 24 is M 16, the Eagle Nebula: [url]http://www.odec.ca/projects/2007/sarl7c2/images/Eagle_Nebula.jpg[/url].
Well, what a collection of links!!! I just wanted to say that there is so much to see in this part of the sky, and Joshua Bury does the sights delightful justice in his large mosaic (I assume it is a mosaic)!
Ann