#PhotoOfTheDay: Star Factory #Messier17

A nearby star factory known as Messier 17 lies some 5,500 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation Sagittarius.

In the sharp color composite image faint details of the region's gas and dust clouds are highlighted with narrowband image data against a backdrop of central Milky Way stars.

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Star Factory Messier 17

A nearby star factory known as Messier 17 lies some 5,500 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation Sagittarius. At that distance, this 1.5 degree wide field-of-view would span about 150 light-years. In the sharp color composite image faint details of the region's gas and dust clouds are highlighted with narrowband image data against a backdrop of central Milky Way stars.

Image Credit & Copyright: Gaetan Maxant

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Saturday night was particularly clear and still, so I made use of the late rising moon to shoot Messier 17, the Omega or Swan Nebula.

Recently Dwarflab have updated the firmware and app for the DwarfII significantly. A new sky atlas function makes it easier to locate and target objects, and updates to the stacking algorithms have made huge differences to the resulting images.

589x15s@gain 80 (I shot 600 frames, but 11 were dropped), postprocessed in Snapseed.

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