(Southern Milky Way between Carina and Scorpius)
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One of the most impressive celestial sights is the rising of the southern Milky Way between the constellations of Carina and Scorpius. To the Australian aborigines, the prominent dust lanes are known as the "Emu".The famous Coal Sack near Crux forms its head and beak, while its neck stretches past a and b Centauri into Norma and Ara. From mid-southern hemisphere latitudes it rises straight from the horizon in the evening hours of March and April. Click here for a higher resolution image (650 kB). This 4-frame mosaic was assembled using a technique developed for the Milky Way panorama. |
| Instrument | : | Minolta XD-7 camera with 1.7/50 mm lens, stopped down to f/3.5 |
| Mount | : | Vixen Super Polaris DX |
| Guiding | : | ST-4 autoguider |
| Film | : | Kodak PJ400 |
| Date | : | 18/20 Feb. 2002 |
| Exposure time | : | approx. 30 minutes each |
| Site | : | Hakos Farm, Namibia (Feb. 18) |
| Farm road near Garies, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (Feb. 20) |
