Derby and District Astronomical Society
Messier 11 (NGC 6705)
The Wild Duck Cluster
Open Cluster in Scutum RA 18h 51m 06s Dec -06d 16m 00s
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This image of M11 was taken by Chris Newsome on the 30th May 2009. Chris used a Canon 400D
camera (controlled by DSLShutter), 18 x 240 seconds exposure, 400ASA, and a Celestron C8-NGT, guided with a Skywatcher
80T/Meade DSI using MaximDL. The final image was stacked in DeepSkyStacker v3.2.2, and then processed in CS2. Note the
meteor by the upper left of the cluster. |
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Chris Newsome produced the following image of M11 on the 14th August 2005. |
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