M11: Open Cluster in Scutum (The Wild Duck Cluster)
| Right Ascension |
18 : 51.1 (h:m) |
| Declination |
-06 : 16 (deg:m) |
| Distance |
6 (kly) |
| Visual Brightness |
6.3 (mag) |
| Apparent Dimension |
14.0 (arc min) |
More information
on M11
| 100 second (20 x 5 sec.) exposure using the PC camera
with Dave Allmon's QCV2 software on the 8" Newtonian.
Dark frame processing, image alignment, and stacking was done with
Dave Allmon's DarkGen program.
Final processing performed with Photoshop.
7/20/2000 |
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| This image is a slightly colorized version of the final image frame above. |
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This image, processed from the same final raw stack as the images above, incorporates some additional processing steps with screen and masking functions in Photoshop.
10/28/00 |
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