The Wild Duck Cluster Surrounded by Dark Nebulae

Posted by Steve Pastor
on Friday, September 25, 2020
Messier 11 (aka NGC 6705 or the Wild Duck Cluster) is an open cluster located in the constellation Scutum in the Milky Way. The open cluster is surrounded by dark nebulae including Barnard 108, 112, 155, 318, and 320. The image is a total of 1 hr exposure through a Takahashi FSQ106ED with a SBIG STF8300c CCD camera mounted on a Takahashi EM200 Temma 2 mount on the night of 19 June 2020 in Mayhill, NM (6 x600 sec lights, 24 darks, 128 flats, 128 bias all at -15 degrees C.). Processed with PixInsight 1.8.8-6 Ripley (x64).
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