060705 Scorpius

[Astroman]

This image was taken on the 6th of July at 7:03pm. It is actually 5 x 15sec Set up on a tripod, stacked with registax3, taken in JPEG mode at 3mp with a Fuji Finepix S7000.

http://www.theastroweb.com/astronomy/stars/scorpio.jpg

The bright line is actually an antenna on my house roof.

A little tweaking in paint shop pro bought out the Milky way more.

[[1ponders]]

Don't you know you're not supposed to take a shot that good on a tripod Andrew. All the books say so! :D Great stuff.

[Astroman]

Thanks Paul, I will try again in RAW format to see if I can get it better.

[h0ughy]

great shot. Is that the stick nebula at the bottom :D