Sharpless 2-27 is very large nebula centered around Zeta Ophiuchi. Very difficult to photograph due to its size and brightness, it is over twenty Moon diameters wide and very faint. Film and detectors well equipped for Hydrogen-Alpha (Ha) imaging reveal it best. I consider it one of the greatest objects in the Milky Way.
Located on the Milky Way's border in Southern Ophiuchus and partially overlapping into northern Scorpius.
Pentax 67 with SMC 200MM F/4 @ F/5.6 60 minutes expose on Kodak E200 transparency film.
Eastern Maine has dark night skies.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Sh2-27 with Iridium Flare
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