Situated 600 light years away C99 The Coalsack Nebula is a large dark nebula in the constellation of Crux. It is visible to the naked eye as a dark patch in the Milky Way. The dark nebula is framed by hundreds of thousands of stars within the Milky Way.
This 9 panel mosaic covers a large portion of the sky encompassing The Coalsack Nebula
Imaged in LRGB on our Planewave DR 350 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.
Image acquisition and processing: Mike Selby