The region around the Pipe Nebula (B78), the main part of the naked-eye formation of dark nebulas called the Dark Horse.
The region around the Pipe Nebula (B78), the main part of the naked-eye formation of dark nebulas called the Dark Horse. In photos it breaks up into patches of dark nebulosity, including the tiny Snake Nebula (B72) at centre in Ophiuchus. I shot this the morning of May 5, 2014 from the Four Bar Cottages near the Arizona Sky Village near Portal, Arizona. This is a stack of 5 x 3 minute exposures with the 135mm telephoto lens at and filter modified Canon 5D Mark II at ISO 1600. It is one segment of a larger multi-panel mosaic.
Size: 5400px × 3601px
Location: The Four Bar Cottage, Arizona
Photo credit: © Alan Dyer / VWPics / Alamy / Afripics
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