Great star cloud in Sagittarius

Made:: 1905 in Mount Wilson

photographer:: Edward Emerson Barnard

maker:: Royal Astronomical Society

Great star cloud in Sagittarius, E.E., Barnard, 1905, June 29 centre of plate, R.A., 17h 56m. decl, -28 degree exposure, 4hr. 53m enlarged 1.9 times, 10-inch Bruce doublet of the Yerkes Observatory Hooker expedition to Mount Wilson, California

Details

Category:: Astronomy

Object Number:: 1912-460

Materials:: paper

type:: black-and-white transparencies, astrophotographs, milky way and galaxies

credit:: Royal Astronomical Society

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