SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
massimo.difusco
Location of Photo:
Chile
Date/Time of photo:
01/10/2024 00:00
Equipment:
Takahashi Epsilon 160, ZWO ASI6200MM Pro, 10Micron GM2000 HPS II, Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB filters
Description:
Messier 24 (also known as the Sagittarius Star Cloud M24 and IC 4715) is a large Milky Way star cloud in Sagittarius constellation that lies at an approximate distance of 10000 light years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 4.6. It is about 600 light years wide and lies in the Sagittarius Arm of our galaxy, the next inner spiral arm to our own. It occupies an area 90 arc minutes in apparent diameter and contains different types of objects, including stars and clusters that lie at a distance of 10000 to 16000 light years from Earth, which gives the cloud a significant depth. In the night sky, the star cloud appears about nine times larger than the full Moon. Messier 24 is one of the three Messier objects that aren’t deep sky objects (despite it contains many deepsky objects).
