Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  Contains:  11 Sgr  ·  B302  ·  B303  ·  B91  ·  HD165246  ·  HD165268  ·  HD165289  ·  HD165321  ·  HD165345  ·  HD165447  ·  HD165483  ·  HD165554  ·  HD165596  ·  HD165613  ·  HD165654  ·  HD165690  ·  HD165705  ·  HD165813  ·  HD165858  ·  HD165872  ·  HD165921  ·  HD165922  ·  HD165923  ·  HD165951  ·  HD165972  ·  HD165999  ·  HD166000  ·  HD166001  ·  HD166032  ·  HD166033  ·  And 210 more.
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IC 4685 in less than 10 minutes, Robin Livermore
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IC 4685 in less than 10 minutes

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IC 4685 in less than 10 minutes, Robin Livermore
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IC 4685 in less than 10 minutes

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Sagittarius is a brief and low summer visitor here, and I've been trying to catch a night clear enough to image below 15 degrees altitude and capture IC4685 amongst the rich starfields. This target never quite hits astronomical night for us, and it's very late in the season for it, so this was just a bunch of 5 second exposures early in the night. No interfering clouds though, so I was able to use everything I captured to get this end result.

It's a slightly strange framing I suppose, with the Lagoon nebula off to the right. With the right camera rotation you could get them both quite nicely in this frame, but my backfocus and image train tilt with the RASA are so sensitive that I just don't rotate!

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IC 4685 in less than 10 minutes, Robin Livermore