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This is a very personal photo to me now much more so than when I took it. Without details, tragedy struck the family. I'd sure like to see this young lady perform now. I believe she is about 8 months in this photo. Her parents are wonderful people. It was a thrill to photograph them both in action. I did everything in my power to show them at their best and they made many of my photographs a showcase of out of the ordinary day to day imaging.
Bought some new hanging flowers for the balcony yesterday. The lady at the garden center said that hummingbirds would find them attractive. She was right! This was less than an hour after hanging the baskets.
This region lies in the constellation of Sagittarius around 5,800 light years away. It has a bit of everything. It's embedded within the rich star fields of Sagittarius and contains dark, emission (red / pink) and reflection (blue) nebulae. The area encircled by the dark lane contains at least 7 catalogued objects - IC 1274, IC 4685 (the large, dispersed, reddish nebula above center), NGC 6559, GN 18.06.6.01, Barnard 303, Barnard 91 (the dark nebulae) and IC 1275. The two brightest reflection nebulae are NGC 6559 (to the right - south) and IC 1274 (to the left - north).
I'm proud of this one, though it is still a work in progress.
Image:
16 x 360sec = 1 hour, 36 minutes at ISO 800
Processed with DeepSky Stacker and Adobe Photoshop CS3
Scope:
Old Yeller
Image acquisition on 07/13-14/2013 at the Louisville Astronomical Society James Baker Center for Astronomy.
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Never saw the movie but I think it was a line in a movie once.
NGC 6559, IC 1274 and IC 4685, In Saggitarius
