| Constellation tour in Summer |
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| Date & Time: | May 4 2000, 26:38 JST(+0900), 20min. Exp. |
| Optical: | SMC TAKUMAR f=105mm F2.4, Aperture: F4.0, with Cokin Diffuser-1 filter |
| Auto-guided with Kenko SKYMEMO Equatorial | |
| Camera: | PENTAX 67 |
| Film: | Ektachrome E200 (+1EV pushed) |
| Location: | Kita-ibaraki city, Ibaraki pref. |
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The Sagittarius ("Sagitta" is Latin for "arrow") is a member of zodiac just west of Scorpius, bathed in the summer's Milky Way,
so includes plenty of attractive nebulae and star clusters. The constellation also includes the center point of our Galaxy. Sagittarius represents Cheiron who has a body of half-man and half-beast, taking a stance to shot an arrow at the scorpion. The asterism of that is well known as "the teapot" in the west, and ancient Chinese had regarded that as another dipper (of course for the Big Dipper in Ursa Major). |
Guide for Deep Sky Objects| M8, M20 | .....Fine Nebulae in the Milky Way, Lagoon & Trifid Nebulae |
| Omega Nebula(M17) | .....Diffused Nebula around the boundary to Serpens in Milky Way, 3300 ly away |
| M18 | .....Small open cluster 1 deg SW of Omega Nebula |
| M22 | .....Huge globular cluster just north of rambda Sgr., 10,000 ly away |
| M23 | .....An open cluster with fine stars at the northern region |
| M24 | .....Star cloud in the middle of the Milky Way |
| M25 | .....Open cluster 6 deg. north of gamma sgr, 1800 ly. away |
| M28 | .....A globular cluster 1 deg WNW of rambda Sgr., 15,000 ly away |
| M54,M69,M70 | .....Scattered three globular clusters south of the "Teapot" |
| M55 | .....Sparse globular cluster at the eastern edge of the Milky Way |
| M75 | .....Tiny & dense globular cluster near the border to Cap., 79,000 ly away |
| Around NGC6723 | .....A globular cluster near boundary on Corona Austrina, 33,000 ly away |
| Barnard's Galaxy(NGC6822) | .....Large & dimmed galaxy in Local Group, 1.6 million ly. away |
| IC1283 | .....Small diffused nebula just south of the Star Cloud |
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