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    Tuesday, August 28, 2018

    Astronomy Adventure - Messier 11

    Messier 11, also known as the Wild Duck cluster, is an open cluster in the constellation Scutum. While visually resembling many globular clusters in may ways, Messier 11 is actually one of the most compact open clusters as opposed to the more disperse IC 4665 in the previous post, containing nearly 3000 stars in all.


    Scope: Starblast 4.5; tracking on
    Magnification: ~30x
    Camera: iPhone6 using NightCap Pro; ISO 8000;

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