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NGC 6820 and NGC 6823, Corey Rueckheim
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NGC 6820 and NGC 6823

NGC 6820 and NGC 6823, Corey Rueckheim
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NGC 6820 and NGC 6823

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I noticed the nebulosity of NGC 6820 while steering the telescope across this area with Stellarium. I was so fascinated by the nebulosity that it didn't even realize that there was also an embedded open cluster, NGC 6823. I took two images of this field, each with a different exposure length. This second image, a stack of longer 45-second exposures, looks worse to me than the other because the stars are much more overexposed and bloated. I was hoping the nebulosity would show up better in this longer exposure, but it looks about the same to me.

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