Messier 25 - Open Cluster in Scorpius

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

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.

Clear skies,
Rodney

[PKay (Peter)]

Not to bad for a quickie!

That's the good thing about clusters.

Well done Rodney

[Andy01 (Andy)]

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

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

Originally Posted by PKay

Not to bad for a quickie!

That's the good thing about clusters.

Well done Rodney

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

Originally Posted by Andy01

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

Gee whiz Andy, you are right. Look what I found lurking underneath the top pixel layer when I started examining the image

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

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Originally Posted by Ryderscope

Gee whiz Andy, you are right. Look what I found lurking underneath the top pixel layer when I started examining the image

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

Awesome, One to beam up!

[The_bluester (Paul)]

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

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

Originally Posted by The_bluester

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

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