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My first real foray into the realm of astrophotography. Canon 350D, pointed straight up, 50mm lens, 20 seconds at f1.8. The sky above Blaxland about 8pm.

Okay, a bit of extra information, now that I've actually been able to figure out what the stars are.

This is the southern end of the constellation Scorpius. The three stars in a line on the left of the image are the tail, the bottom one being Lambda Scorpii, a.k.a. Shaula.

The bright bunch of stars just to the left of center is M7, a large bright open cluster. The bright star just below and to the left of center (just underneath the three little red ones) is M^, also known as the Buytterfly cluster. Just a bit further below that is NGC 6383.

On the right hand side, we have M8 as the pinky purple nebula, and further to the right of it, M20 (the triffid nebula) and M21.

The Wiki article on Scorpius is Here [link] , although the photograph here is actually rotated quite a bit in relation to the starchart on the page.

But that's okay, there's no up or down in space....

EDIT

Well, colour me happy. One of the images from this night has been used by HarperCollins on the cover of the newly released "For Darkness Shows the Stars"! [link] I got credit and everything!
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~wodalzz Mar 3, 2012
Astonishly beautiful!

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~wodalzz Mar 3, 2012
May I use this in an artwork of mine?

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~Tiberius47 Mar 3, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
As long as you credit me and link back to this page, sure. :)

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~wodalzz Mar 3, 2012
Thankyou very much!

Here is the result: [link]

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~Tiberius47 Mar 6, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
It looks very good!

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~wodalzz Mar 11, 2012
Thanks!

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~carlmoon Feb 29, 2012
could i use this for a backround? i will send you the link and give credit

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~Tiberius47 Mar 3, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Sure. :)

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~dermotcw Feb 23, 2012
Love this, can I use it for class work?
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~Tiberius47 Feb 24, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Sure. :)

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