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The Wild Duck Cluster Blazes with Hot Blue Stars

After endlessly cloudy or brightly moonlit nights, we finally saw clear skies with no Moon over Southern New England. So I set out to Frosty Drew Observatory in Charlestown, RI.

 

This is one of the shots I snapped. It is Messier 11 - The Wild Duck Cluster, a rather dense open star cluster that is found in the constellation Scutum and resides at 6,200 light years distant. This is a fabulous target for binoculars and back yard telescopes along the plane of the Milky Way galaxy in the Northern Hemisphere summertime sky. -Enjoy!

 

Photo Details:

Camera: Canon 60D MagicLantern

1370mm

f/9

ISO: 5000

Exposure: 30 seconds * 77 exposures

This is 77 shots median composite to reduce noise.

 

-Scott MacNeill

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Uploaded on June 3, 2016
Taken on June 2, 2016