Australian Sky & Telescope - May 2018

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S THE HUNTER

Ray Prior

Nothing beats the sight of majestic

Orion, the Hunter, dominating summer’s

equatorial sky. Ray captured the scene

using a Canon EOS 1100D camera, 50-

mm lens and six, 90-second exposures.

S SPACE GULL
Mervyn Millward
The Seagull Nebula, IC 2177, is a large region of atomic hydrogen
located about 3,600 light-years from Earth. For this image, Mervyn took
25 frames, 5 minutes each, through LRGB and H-alpha ilters using a
QSI 583WS camera and 85-mm refractor.