M11, the wild duck cluster and surroundings in Scutum (Guillermo (Guy) Yanez)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Scutum (Sct) · Contains: Amas de l'Ecu de Sobieski · M 11 · NGC 6705 · Wild Duck Cluster

M11, the wild duck cluster and surroundings in Scutum, Guillermo (Guy) Yanez

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M11, the wild duck cluster and surroundings in Scutum

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M11, the wild duck cluster and surroundings in Scutum

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Televue NP101is + Losmandy GM8

SBIG ST8300M + Astronomik narrowband filters

Lo Barnechea, Chile

Bortle 7

Seeing: 4/5 Transparency 3/5

CLS/CLS/Ha/OIII

90/90/50/65 minutes

Object Name: NGC 6705

Name 2: Wild Duck Cluster

Object Type: Open Cluster

RA (Topocentric): 18h 52m 12.3s

Dec (Topocentric): -06° 14' 25"

Magnitude: 5,80

Transit Time: 21:51

Constellation: SCT

Date: 15-08-20

Constellation: Scutum

Constellation (Abbrev.): Sct

My field imaging laptop kept on rebooting several times, which meant reducing the total exposure time (perhaps some issue with the VNC server and Windows 7 compatibility). Regardless of that minor issue and reconnecting everything up over and over (although the telescope kept the object on the frame since it was still operating properly), this object and starry surroundings are fairly bright. So, the roughly 3 hours feasible capture time was just about right.

This open cluster lies at 6200 ly from us and its apparent position is sandwiched between Scutum and Aquila. It is a nice part of the sky, following the shape of the Milkyway silhouette. The cluster contains around 2900 stars in a 12.5 ly diameters for an apparent 14 arc-min in size.

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