Saturn, the bright object at upper right, in the head of Scorpius in March 2015. Antares is the bright yellow star below, just right of centre. The centre of the Milky Way is at left, with the bright star clouds of Sagittarius above the star clusters Messiers 6 and 7. The reddish Lagoon Nebula, M8, is above centre at left. The “Dark Horse” made of dark dust lanes is left of centre. This is a stack of 4 x 2 minute exposures in the dawn twilight, March 26, 2015, with the 50mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 6D at ISO 800, tracked on the Star Adventurer.
Saturn (at top) above the globular star cluster M22 in Sagittarius, on May 15-16, 2018, in the pre-dawn hours as the sky was beginning to brighten with twilight. The smaller globular, M28, is at lower right. This is a stack of 5 x 4-minute exposures with the Meade 70mm f/5 astrograph and Canon 5D Mark II at ISO 1600.
The spectacular area around the Galactic Centre of the Milk Way in Scorpius (at right) and Sagittarius (at left) as shot from Australia with this area nearly overhead in the wee hours of an April morning. Saturn is left of centre. Yellow Antares is right of centre. The region is rich in nebulas and star clusters. The Dark Horse and Pipe Nebula is above centre. The Sagittarius Starcloud is left of centre. The Small Sagittarius Starcloud, M24, is at upper left in the Milky Way. This is a stack of 5 x 3-minute exposures with the 35mm Canon L-Series lens at f/2.8 and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600, with an additional exposure taken through the Kenko Softon A filter layered in to add the star glows.
