Derby and District Astronomical Society
Messier 11 (NGC 6705)
The Wild Duck Cluster
Open Cluster in Scutum
RA 18h 51m 06s Dec -06° 16' 00"
This image of M11 was taken by Peter Branson on 7th July 2022 and comprises a total of 35 images each at 120 seconds - a total exposure of 70 minutes. The images were taken with a ZWO ASI533 cooled colour camera together with a TS Optics Photoline f7 telescope with a Hutech IDAS light pollution filter and field flattener attached, mounted on an NEQ6 mount. A filter wheel fitted with LRGBHa filters was used to capture these images (Luminance only). The images were stacked in Nebulosity, then PixInsight was used to remove background gradients and noise and some further post-processing including using levels and curves. Peter says - "I was really surprised by how many stars popped out of this image when I finished the post-processing in PixInsight." Image Credit: Peter Branson. |
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Peter Branson took this image of M11 on the 28th June 2021. It was obtained by combining the best of 20x60sec images taken with an Atik 314L+ colour camera. This was used in conjunction with a TS Optics Photoline ED102 f7 telescope with a Hutech IDAS light pollution filter and field flattener attached and all mounted on an NEQ6 mount. This arrangement was guided with a separate guidescope using PHD Guiding. The images were combined and processed in Nebulosity. Image Credit: Peter Branson. |
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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. Image Credit: Chris Newsome. |
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Chris Newsome produced the following image of M11 on the 14th August 2005. Image Credit: Chris Newsome. |
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