M23 an open cluster in Sagittarius (RonAdams)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr) · Contains: M 23 · NGC 6494

M23 an open cluster in Sagittarius, RonAdams

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M23 an open cluster in Sagittarius

I wanted to try and image M23. Sagittarius is slowly moving out of the sky. Where it is located right now I have trouble imaging because of some very old and very tall pine trees. Also Sagittarius is relatively low in the sky. I knew that I would only have a little time before Sagittarius would be into the trees. There are a handful of objects that I really like to view in an eye piece and M23 has always been one of those objects. If it's up then I'm going to observe it. In an eye piece it does not look like other open clusters. Shortly after I started imaging M23 clouds moved in and shut me down. The clouds did leave later but by the time the sky was clear again

M23 was in the trees. However I did get enough light frames to get an image. With all of that said please enjoy my most recent image of M23.

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