Messier 25 - Open Cluster in Scorpius

[Ryderscope]

Open clusters are nice fun objects to grab occasionally and are great time fillers whilst waiting for the main image target to get high enough. This is a quick 'grab and go' data set that I've been squirrelling away for the past couple of months.

M25 is a nice bright open cluster in Scorpius. The cluster is comprised of approximately 600 stars and is about 2,000 light years from Earth.

A bit over 2 hours per channel, RGB only and processing in Pixinsight.

Link to image on Astrobin here. (https://astrob.in/p9it1j/0/)

Clear skies,
Rodney

[PKay]

Not to bad for a quickie!

That's the good thing about clusters.

Well done Rodney :thumbsup:

[Andy01]

That's a lovely image Rodney, reminds me of the Star Trek insignia :lol:

[Ryderscope]

Thanks Peter, yep - lots of shorts subs and saves wasting good dark sky time.



Gee whiz Andy, you are right. Look what I found lurking underneath (https://astrob.in/full/b7j4re/0/) the top pixel layer when I started examining the image :D

... Space - the final frontier
..... These are the voyages of the Star Ship Enterprise ... :ship1:

[Andy01]

:ship1: Awesome, One to beam up! :lol:

[The_bluester]

That is very hard to unsee. A very nice little cluster.

[Ryderscope]

Very good Paul. Open clusters don’t necessarily have that ‘wow’ factor but I still like to grab one occasionally.