M24 Small Sagittarius Star Cloud - Sh2-37 - M18 (Jerry Macon)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr) · Contains: B304 · B307 · B92 · B93 · IC 1283 · IC 1284 · IC 4715 · M 18 · M 24 · NGC 6567 · NGC 6589 · NGC 6590 · NGC 6595 · NGC 6603 · NGC 6613 · PK011-00.2 · Sh2-37 · Sh2-39 · Sh2-41 · Sh2-43 · Small Sgr Star Cloud · VdB117 · VdB118 · VdB119 · VdB121

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M24 Small Sagittarius Star Cloud - Sh2-37 - M18

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M24 Small Sagittarius Star Cloud - what a spectacular region of sky. Why did it take me so long to get around to it.

For those who like stats, there are 369,417 stars in this image. Wow! With an average of 168 pixels per star.

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Unlike most entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog of deep sky objects, M24 is not a bright galaxy, star cluster, or nebula. It's a gap in nearby, obscuring interstellar dust clouds that allows a view of the distant stars in the Sagittarius spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. When you gaze at the star cloud with binoculars or small telescope you are looking through a window over 300 light-years wide at stars some 10,000 light-years or more from Earth. Sometimes called the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud, M24's luminous stars fill the top of this gorgeous starscape. Covering about 4 degrees or the width of 8 full moons in the constellation Sagittarius, the telescopic field of view contains many small, dense clouds of dust and nebulae toward the center of the Milky Way, including reddish emission from IC 1284 at the left of the frame.

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RA (center)	18h16m50s.66
RA (top/left)	18h21m16s.99
RA (top/right)	18h20m53s.75
RA (bottom/right)	18h12m28s.74
RA (bottom/left)	18h12m43s.44

Dec (center)	-18°30′36″.2
Dec (top/left)	-19°59′21″.1
Dec (top/right)	-16°58′26″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	-17°01′31″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	-20°02′22″.9

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