Summer Triangle
and the northern Milky Way
The milky way is framed between the three stars that form the Summer
Triangle: Deneb, Vega, and Altair. A wealth of deep sky objects is visible
in this photograph including the North American Nebula, the Butterfly
Nebula, and vast dust clouds that obscure the bright concentrations of stars
along the galaxy's disk.
This image was taken from Rattlesnake Lake, WA, near North
Bend.
Canon 40D
Canon 24-70mm L (@24mm)
50x1 minute exposures
Processed with Images Plus and Photoshop CS3
Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools