The Swan Nebula (M17)

posted: 892 days ago, on Tuesday, 2009 Sep 01 at 07:40
tags: astronomy, astrophotography, deep sky, Dany Duprez.

Contributor: Dany Duprez

Captured with a 40-cm telescope. "The seeing was not best, around 3/5," Dany writes, noting that the faintest magnitude was around 18th. The field of view is about 32' x 25'.
Date: 2008 August

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