78 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2017
W POETIC
PICTURE
Joe Perulero
Named after the
Nobel Prize-
winning Chilean
poet, the Gabriela
Mistral Nebula
(also known
as NGC 3324
and IC 2599) is
located around
7,200 light-years
away. Joe used a
SBIG STF8300m
camera and
LRGB, Ha, O-III
and S-II filters for
a total of just over
5 hours exposure.S MARS IN THE MIDDLE Lander Clifton
Very unusually for this day and age, this image of Mars near
the Milky Way (in September last year) was taken on film!
Lander used a Minolta X300 camera, 35mm 200 ASA film
and a 135mm lens, manually guided using a 25-cm SCT.GALLERY