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I agreeImaging telescope or lens:Vixen R200SS
Imaging camera:ZWO ASI1600MM
Mount:Orion HDX110 EQ-G
Guiding telescope or lens:ZWO 30F4 Guidescope
Guiding camera:ZWO ASI 120 MC
Software:Stark Labs Nebulocity 4, Stark Labs PHD 2.6, DSS, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filters:Astronomik Blue 1.25", Astronomik Green 1.25" CCD Filter
Resolution: 3918x2673
Dates:June 22, 2019, June 23, 2019
Frames:
Astronomik Blue 1.25": 92x60" (gain: 139.00) -5C
Astronomik Green 1.25" CCD Filter: 100x60" (gain: 139.00) -5C
Astronomik Red 1.25": 101x60" (gain: 139.00) -5C
Integration: 4.9 hours
Darks: ~60
Flats: ~50
Bias: ~500
Avg. Moon age: 20.00 days
Avg. Moon phase: 71.97%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.33
Astrometry.net job: 2758993
RA center: 265.086 degrees
DEC center: -32.259 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.975 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 220.115 degrees
Field radius: 0.642 degrees
Locations: Papago Butte, near Maricopa, AZ, United States
Data source: Backyard
Messier 6 or the Buttefly Cluster... I find these open clusters to be very beautiful and excellent for working to improve processing skills. I think one can quite clearly see the butterfly pattern.
This cluster lies about 1,600 ly away in Scorpius. It is quite young at about 100mm years and is made up of mostly hot spectral class B stars. The orange spectral class K star though, being the brightest.
The foregoing information was obtained from messier-objects.com.
This cluster does appear quite low in the sky at my latitude (32-59N) but I still wanted to image it.
Anyway, any comments and/ or criticism always welcome and clear skies to all!
Mike
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