Winter Milky Way

NOTES DATE: Saturday, February 12, 2005 TIME: 11:30 pm EST FILM: Kodak EXPOSURE: 20 minutes LOCATION: Winter Star Party (Camp Wesumkee, West Summerland Key in the Florida Keys) INSTRUMENT: 28 mm lens @ f/4 piggybacked on 10" LX200 PROCESSING: Negative scanned with Epson Perfection 3200 scanner.  Further enhancements made with Adobe Photoshop 7. COMMENTS: This is the section of the Milky Way we can't see from Michigan (42º latitude), but is easily within reach from the Florida Keys.  The back leg and tail of Canis Major is visible in the upper right.  Constellations also visible in this image are Puppis, Pyxis, Vela, Antila, and Carina.  The bright star above the bright red portable observatory (and to the left of the tree) is Canopus; the second brightest star in the sky.