Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Scutum (Sct)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Scutum

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Very wide field view of a portion of the Milky Way, taken with a Canon zoom lens at about 50mm focal length, giving a field of view of 21 x 15 degrees. This image contains the whole of the constellation Scutum and includes some of the deep sky objects already mentioned in this book: Eagle Nebula, Small Sagittarius Star Cloud, and the Omega Nebula. 

Scutum contains a star cloud which is the bright densely populated region on the right-hand side of the shot.

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Scutum, Chris Ashford