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 This amazing region of sky begins
            at the bottom right of the image with the Trifid nebula in Sagittarius
            followed by the open c luster M21 to its upper left. IC1283 is
            the round red cloud of hydrogen in the upper left corner, attended
            by NGC6589-90. The large chevron shaped dark nebula juts into
            the Milky Way like a sword, with glowing hydrogen around its
            periphery. Several loose disconnected reddish clouds of hydrogen
            float in this field.

Instrument:  8" f/1.5 Celestron Schmidt Camera
Platform:  Homemade GEM
Film:  Kodak Supra 400
CCD Autoguider: ST4
Exposure:  8mins
Filters:  NONE
Location:  Happy Jack, Arizona
Elevation:  6800 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 8/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  15 C
Processing: Photoshop, PW Pro.
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