Can I have some help on this one - took a mystery object last night

[h0ughy]

Hi learned people,

I took a quick shot last night as i took my son to Scouts - was only an hours worth and i pointed the scope in a region somewhere below or around Sagittarius. It is an open cluster with one distinctive feature - a large red star in a sea of blue ones? Its rather pretty, but in my haste I didn’t note what it could have been.

So – the challenge – can you positively identify the image contents?

[Octane]

M6.

H

[adman]

beat me by that much H....:P

M6 it is

[dugnsuz]

Nice shot too Houghy

[Octane]

Adam,

It was the first open cluster I ever shot, and, I've loved it since. : )

H

[h0ughy]

well blow me down - so it is

thanks guys - LOL its not good to point and shoot with no idea what you are aimaing at LOL.

Hey i recon that should be the image of the month to guess some obscure object from a photo LOL

i only has 5 minutes to turn on the pc, start the mount aim and shoot - never would have been able to have done it without the observatory

[h0ughy]

ok i moved the thread from General Chat to Deep sky now that i know what it is LOL

[h0ughy]

ok - the usual - Stacked in deep sky stacker, and processed in Pixinsight 1.6. Its only 54 minutes worth (stack of 3 min exposures ISO 800) 127Ed and the cooled Canon40D. Resized in Photoshop for the web

[SkyViking]

It's a beautiful shot David. I was star hopping tonight and got it in the field by 'accident' - "That's the Butterfly Cluster for sure!" I thought, even though I've never observed it before, it was just so striking - really loks like a butterfly! :)

[adman]

No wonder you beat me - you knew it by sight, I had to go atlas-hunting!

Adam

[PeterM]

N.I.C.E. very,very.
PeterM.

[h0ughy]

thanks Peter

[h0ughy]

thanks Rolf

[JD2439975]

That came up nicely David, one red amongst blue is a real stand out.

Now there's an idea for a variation on the "the next photo" challenge...the "what's this" challenge. :lol:

[mexhunter]

Hi HOUGHY:
Very nice photography.
Many grettings
Cesar

[allan gould]

I remember the first time I saw M6 (ButterflyCluster) and it really impressed itself in my mind as thats just what it looked like.
Nice shot David.

[DavidU]

Yep, thats a good one.

[h0ughy]

thanks guys - had fun finding out what it was

[RB]

Oh lovely shot Dave !
Turned out nicely for a 54 min exposure.
Love the star colours.

:)

[h0ughy]

thanks RB - LOL now you have seen what i have its easy to get a quick shot in ;)

[strongmanmike]

Just catching up with this one Houghy

Great little shot that, nice star colours and they even glow :thumbsup:

The butterfy is nicely delineated too

Point and shoot huh? Good party game at an astromomers birthday - playing pin the camera on the deep sky object :D

Mike

[h0ughy]

LOL thnaks Mike - i recon that would be a very entertaining game;)

Those visual guys would probably pick most of the areas though - they are pretty smart:D ;)