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If anyone is interested, that is a shot of the center of our galaxy, the Sagittarius region. If you look nearly dead center, in the middle of the "bulge" that would be our galactic center. All the hubub over the end of the world in 2012 has to do with the sun the earth and the rest of the planets "lining up" with the galactic center. I am not a subscriber to the Mayan calendar but just a heads up ...did you know sort of thing?... Also if you look at the colored area just to the right, there are some blues and reds that surround some stars, that's the Ophiuchus region, Real pretty when photographed right, not too shabby in this exposure, just small. Also the red knots distributed through the photo are hydrogen gas and they are star nurseries where stars are forming. This is a film image opposed to digital or CCD because film is sensitive to the hydrogen and will show brighter. There are many little "named objects" in fact too numerous to post here.

Just an FYI