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 This
            huge 25 degree long strip of sky is made from several nights
            of schmidt camera shots combined to make one large composite
            panorama. At the bottom of this sequence is the Lagoon nebula,
            followed by the Trifid above, M24 star cloud, M17 to M16. Hoards
            of extremely faint red nebulosities are strewn throughout the
            field as well. It was painful to reduce this large detailed image
            for web publication, even the 1600 tall shot had many stars simply
            disappear because they were reduced in size to sub pixel on the
            reduction. At any rate, you get the feel for the depth and beauty
            of this part of the sky that we all come to appreciate and enjoy!
Instrument:  8" f/1.5 Celestron Schmidt Camera
Platform:  Homemade GEM
Film:  Kodak Supra 400
CCD Autoguider: ST4
Exposure:  Each 8mins
Filters:  NONE
Location:  Happy Jack, Arizona
Elevation:  6800 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 8/10, Transparency 10/10
Outside Temperature:  15 C
Processing: Photoshop
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