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Scutum Starcloud and Dark Nebulas (Draco62 RMod).jpg
This frames the bright Scutum Starcloud in the Milky Way, surrounded by contrasting dark nebulas and dust clouds. Just left of centre in the Starcloud is the bright star cluster Messier 11, or the Wild Duck Cluster. Another Messier open star cluster is in the field, Messier 26, at bottom. In the bottom left corner is a globular star cluster NGC 6712, dubbed the Weird Globular, with a small green dot beside it, the planetary nebula IC 1295.
Above centre is the star Beta Scuti with the smaller and somewhat indistinct starcloud NGC 6682 to the right on the upper right edge here.
The dark nebulas just above M11 are Barnard objects: B119, B111, B110 and others. But the large mass of dark dust at top doesn't seem to carry any official catalogue designation. Below M11 are small wisps of dark dust catalogued by Barnard as B115 thru B118, plus B112. At the right edge at centre is B103.
The starfields are yellowed by interstellar dust absorption of the short blue wavelengths.
The field of view is about 8.2° by 5.5°, similar to binoculars.
Technical:
This is a stack of 15 x 4-minute exposures with the Founder Optics Draco 62 astrograph with its f/3.9 Reducer, and the astro-modified Canon EOS R camera at ISO 800. No filter was employed here. On the Star Adventurer GTi mount autoguided with the MGEN3 autoguider. Taken at the Southern Alberta Star Party in the Cypress Hills. in September 2024.
Above centre is the star Beta Scuti with the smaller and somewhat indistinct starcloud NGC 6682 to the right on the upper right edge here.
The dark nebulas just above M11 are Barnard objects: B119, B111, B110 and others. But the large mass of dark dust at top doesn't seem to carry any official catalogue designation. Below M11 are small wisps of dark dust catalogued by Barnard as B115 thru B118, plus B112. At the right edge at centre is B103.
The starfields are yellowed by interstellar dust absorption of the short blue wavelengths.
The field of view is about 8.2° by 5.5°, similar to binoculars.
Technical:
This is a stack of 15 x 4-minute exposures with the Founder Optics Draco 62 astrograph with its f/3.9 Reducer, and the astro-modified Canon EOS R camera at ISO 800. No filter was employed here. On the Star Adventurer GTi mount autoguided with the MGEN3 autoguider. Taken at the Southern Alberta Star Party in the Cypress Hills. in September 2024.
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