Annotated Central Milky Way Region
The central region of the Milky Way around and above Sagittarius. The center of our galaxy lies about 25,000 light years away in the direction of Sagittarius. Arguably, this is the busiest area of the night sky with a truly vast star-field containing numerous bright red nebula, super nova remnants, dark dust lanes and nebulae, star clusters, and other deep sky objects. The field of view is about 45 degrees across (top to bottom).
Canon 5D Mark II (astromodified; Baader UV/IR cut)
Canon 17-40mm L f4 lens at 40mm
f5.6
ISO 640
CGEM mount
Guided (Lacerta MGEN II)
ISO 640
11x3min subexposures (33min total integration)
PixInsight (calibrated, registered, stacked, post-processed)
Photoshop (finish processing)