A sad limitation of my observing place at home is the "Great Wall" that obstucts my view of the southern sky. I have always wanted to image the beautiful nebulas in Scorpious but its too far south for a target for my scope at home. Luckily, we were treated to a good sky last Monday. So, there's no hesitation that I pointed my 200mm lens towards Scorpious to capture the two elusive nebulas near the stinger of the scorpion. Here lies two large diffuse nebulas named Lobster and Cat's Paw nebulae. I intentionally included in the image the two bright stars, Epsilon and Lambda Scorpii as position reference to the nebulas. The starfields in this region of the sky are dense because they lie towards the center of the Milky Way.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
At the stinger of the Scorpion (NGC 6334 & NGC 6357)
A sad limitation of my observing place at home is the "Great Wall" that obstucts my view of the southern sky. I have always wanted to image the beautiful nebulas in Scorpious but its too far south for a target for my scope at home. Luckily, we were treated to a good sky last Monday. So, there's no hesitation that I pointed my 200mm lens towards Scorpious to capture the two elusive nebulas near the stinger of the scorpion. Here lies two large diffuse nebulas named Lobster and Cat's Paw nebulae. I intentionally included in the image the two bright stars, Epsilon and Lambda Scorpii as position reference to the nebulas. The starfields in this region of the sky are dense because they lie towards the center of the Milky Way.
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