Observation by Andrew Paterson: Summer Triangle and the Milky Way

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Andrew Paterson

Observer

Andrew Paterson

Observed

2019 Jul 30 - 21:14

Uploaded

2019 Aug 09 - 07:22

Objects

The Milky Way
Altair
Deneb
Vega
Widefield

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Constellation

Vulpecula

Field centre

RA: 19^h32^m
Dec: +23°49'
Position angle: -34°08'

Field size

55° × 38°

Equipment

Canon Powershot G7X

Exposure

15s F1.8 ISO 800

Location

Les Touches-de-Périgny

Target name

Summer Triangle in the Northern Milky Way

Title

Summer Triangle and the Milky Way

About this image

A widefield view of the northern milky way passing through Cygnus. The stars of the summer triangle are easily visible with Vega top right Altair bottom right and Deneb towards the left. Taken from a fairly dark sky site in SW France with a compact camera.

Files associated with this observation

IMG_4178 (5).JPG (2.0 MB)

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David Basey, Jeremy Shears, Geof Lewis, Andrew Dumbleton, Callum Potter, Andy Wilson

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