This photograph shows a wide spread of the Milky Way, running from the constellation Aquila (lower left) through Cygnus, Cepheus, Cassiopeia and Perseus (upper right). Lots of bright stars, red emission nebulae and dark nebulae can be seen superimposed on it, all of them "foreground" objects in front of the billions of stars forming the plane of our Galaxy.
This is a photograph taken with a 17mm Fisheye lens, about 1/3 of the sky is pictured in it, with some distortion towards the edges. The ground is visible twice: In the lower left corner (south), where the sky becomes greenish due to natural skyglow and human-made light pollution, and towards the lower right (west), where the horizon is formed by the roof of a nearby house.
The Milky Way in Cygnus - Wide-Angle View, wide-angle lens photograph.
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