A photograph of our galaxy, the Milky Way, by Michael Brown.
The faintest stars visible in the image are 50 times
fainter than what can be seen with the naked eye! The brown and grey
clouds in the photo are actually millions
of distant stars. The red blobs visible in the image are huge clouds
of gas (nebulae). The most prominent of these is M7, the Lagoon Nebula,
which is at the top-left of the photo. The photo is a 12 minute
exposure using a Ricoh KR-5 Super camera with a 50mm lens and ASA 400,
piggy back mounted on a Celestron C-8 telescope.
Click here for a larger version of this image (61k).
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opinions of The University of Melbourne.
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This page
created on: 16th August, 1997. Last updated: 23rd October, 1997.
Maintained by:
Michael Brown, mbrown@NOSPAM.physics.unimelb.edu.au
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