Dear group,
I have generally avoided imaging the southern sky and especially at low altitudes since I have problems with both the seeing as well as serious light pollution from the national highway which joins northern Greece with Athens.
Just for the heck of it I thought I would go after M11 - aka Wild Duck cluster - in Scutum It is one of the richest and most dense open clusters in our galaxy and is somewhat of a challenge to image. For a result based on just two hours total time, please see
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-DSO-NGC-6705.htm (the image is hyperlinked and leads to a higher analysis version of the same).
Anthony.
I have generally avoided imaging the southern sky and especially at low altitudes since I have problems with both the seeing as well as serious light pollution from the national highway which joins northern Greece with Athens.
Just for the heck of it I thought I would go after M11 - aka Wild Duck cluster - in Scutum It is one of the richest and most dense open clusters in our galaxy and is somewhat of a challenge to image. For a result based on just two hours total time, please see
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-DSO-NGC-6705.htm (the image is hyperlinked and leads to a higher analysis version of the same).
Anthony.
