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<<The Shinarump Conglomerate is a geologic formation found in the Four Corners region of the United States. It was deposited in the early part of the Late Triassic period. The Shinarump Conglomerate is a highly resistant coarse-grained sandstone and pebble conglomerate, with rare lenses of mudstone, sometimes forming a caprock because of its hardness, cementation, and erosion resistance. The Shinarump is found throughout the Colorado Plateau with significant exposures as the canyon rimrock in the vicinity of Canyon De Chelly National Monument, at the north-northeast of the Defiance Plateau/Defiance Uplift. At Canyon De Chelly the Shinarump Conglomerate was laid down upon De Chelly Sandstone-(280 Ma, an erosion unconformity of 50 my), in a region at the west foothill region of the mostly north-south trending Chuska Mountains of northeast Arizona – northwest New Mexico.

[b][color=#0000FF]Just northwest of Canyon De Chelly, the Shinarump also forms a caprock in Monument Valley across the border region of northern Arizona – and southern Utah. The Shinarump Conglomerate there is laid upon units of the Moenkopi Formation and remain as resistant caprocks preserving the vertical cliffs of De Chelly Sandstone and other units of the Monument Upwarp/Monument Uplift. The associated Black Mesa (Arizona)-Defiance Uplift extends southeast from Monument Valley into the western border region of New Mexico. The relatively steep east dip of geology units results in increasingly younger geologic units eastwards into New Mexico.[/color][/b]>> [/quote]

[quote="Joe Stieber" post_id=317764 time=1635200736 user_id=128088]

A couple of changes from Ann's labeling. Nunki is not in the picture, #9 is actually Phi Sgr and #10, labeled Kaus Australis, is actually Kaus Media (Kaus Australis was unlabeled). Kaus Borealis (north), Media (middle) and Australis (south) comprise the centaur archer's bow.
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In Ann's defense:

Ann has had her star program for quite some time now and [b][u]stars do move[/u][/b].

Here's my labeled version. A couple of changes from Ann's labeling. Nunki is not in the picture, #9 is actually Phi Sgr and #10, labeled Kaus Australis, is actually Kaus Media (Kaus Australis was unlabeled). Kaus Borealis (north), Media (middle) and Australis (south) comprise the centaur archer's bow.

Thanks, Ann! Only one thing would make your annotations better: adding the text to the image, or as here, alongside, to minimize the scrolling otherwise needed to correlate things:


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Highway 163 to Galactic Center :mrgreen:
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Extension?
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Hope they have a lot of gas stations along the way! ⛽️ 🤪

It really is a beautiful photo; very stunning! 8-)

We're in our car, guys, and we're headed down 163, straight for the Galactic Center!

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Just a quick annotation...

1) M17, [url=https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/omega-nebula.jpg]Omega Nebula[/url]

2) M24, [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Messier_24_Colombari_crop_invert.jpg]the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud[/url]

3) [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/The_crammed_centre_of_Messier_22.jpg/800px-The_crammed_centre_of_Messier_22.jpg]M22[/url], globular cluster

4) [url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d1/e1/ba/d1e1ba0452c2e5aed8cd39aa0e932f0e.jpg]M21[/url], open cluster

5) [url=https://media.sciencephoto.com/r5/60/04/27/r5600427-800px-wm.jpg]NGC 6559[/url], nebula

6) [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/The_Trifid_Nebula.jpg/467px-The_Trifid_Nebula.jpg]The Trifid Nebula[/url]

7) [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/VST_images_the_Lagoon_Nebula.jpg/1280px-VST_images_the_Lagoon_Nebula.jpg]The Lagoon Nebula[/url]

8) [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Messier_28_Hubble_WikiSky.jpg/1024px-Messier_28_Hubble_WikiSky.jpg]M28[/url], globular cluster

9) Nunki, [url=https://www.constellation-guide.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Teapot.webp]star in the Teapot of Sagittarius[/url]

10) Kaus Australis, [url=https://www.constellation-guide.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Teapot.webp]star in the Teapot of Sagittarius[/url]

11) [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Large_Sagittarius_star_cloud.jpg]Large Star Cloud of Sagittarius[/url]

12) [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140107.html]M7[/url], open cluster

13) [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140903.html]M6[/url], the Butterfly cluster

Ann

[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211025.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_211025.jpg[/img] [size=150]Road to the Galactic Center[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] Does the road to our galaxy's center go through [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley]Monument Valley[/url]? It doesn't have to, but if your road does -- take a picture. In this case, the road is [url=https://youtu.be/0yTBvAhj7Nw?t=293]US Route 163[/url] and iconic buttes on the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation]Navajo Nation[/url]al [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation#Reservation_and_expansion]Reservation[/url] populate the horizon. The band of [url=https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/milkyway1.html]Milky Way Galaxy[/url] stretches down from the sky and appears to be a [url=https://blogmais.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/imagem_ht_07-04-23.jpg]continuation[/url] of the road on [url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/overview/]Earth[/url]. Filaments of dust darken the [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190927.html]Milky Way[/url], in contrast to billions of bright stars and several colorful glowing gas clouds including the [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap181112.html]Lagoon[/url] and [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210812.html]Trifid[/url] nebulas. The featured picture is a composite of images taken with the same camera and from the same location -- [url=https://www.travelinusa.us/forrest-gump-point/]Forest Gump Point[/url] in [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah]Utah[/url], [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States]USA[/url]. The foreground was taken just after sunset in early September during the [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191011.html]blue hour[/url], while the background is a mosaic of four exposures captured a few hours later.


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