M11

[TheAstroGuy]

Here's an image of M11 or least I'm pretty sure it's M11 it was a long night and this image was taken at the end of it as i slewed through the Scorpius region manually and stopped at this here.

Someone can confirm this if possible, but i am almost sure it is.

Here's the shot for confirmation.

http://www.theastroguy.com.au/images/M11.jpg

Kind regards

Shane

[gregbradley]

That's a beautiful shot. What were the equipment and exposure details?

Those beautiful blue stars in the cluster look amazing.

Greg.

[Coen]

I like the colours.

It appears to be M11, located in Scutum. You might find: http://www.ngcicproject.org/ useful as a comparison resource for this and future photographs (look up NGC 6705 for M11)

http://seds.org/messier/more/m011_m2.html might also be helpful?

[TheAstroGuy]

Thanks Greg,

It was taken with a EQ mounted 12" reflector and colour 11002 CCD.
With a very intricate wind barrier:) protecting that massive wind sail, may as well be a spinnaker ready for a seaward journey without a HGM titan or something of that level carrying her, so the barrier becomes integral part of the set-up. Barrier connects to the Car - Tent - Large modified stand.

I think the exposure times were fairly short 120sec x 20 something like that. with equal darks from library used at time of stacking.
There was no bias or flats in this image.

[TheAstroGuy]

that's a very useful website,

Thanks Coen, brilliant!

Regards

Shane

[mithrandir]

Some info on your M11 image, courtesy of unimap.

[TheAstroGuy]

Andrew,

What is the link to that site, that's incredible

[mithrandir]

See this (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=54287) thread and Larry's (http://larryo.org/work/information/unimap/index.html) page.

I'd have included your image with overlay but it breaks the 200KB limit, and is hard to read if reduced.

[multiweb]

Good stuff! Colors are great. Beautiful field too. :thumbsup:

[TheAstroGuy]

Marc,

Thanks again mate,



Andrew,

That website has made my day, week , month.

I have this crazy notion at the end of each imaging session to slew manually around the sky in a kind of celestial lucky dip and this tool will be like the jigsaw puzzle missing piece to the last shot.

Thanks a googooplex!!

Regards

Shane