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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
11:00 pm
Orion ED80T-CF refractor with OVL field flattener, ZWO ASI183MC camera with Optolong L-Pro filter, SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro mount.
Twenty 3-minute lights plus calibration frames were stacked using DeepSkyStacker; other post-processing was with Siril, Photoshop CS2 plus Astronomy Tools plugin, and PhotoScape X.
The Wild Duck Cluster (Messier 11) is an open star cluster located in the constellation Scutum. Its name comes from the cluster's rough V-shape. The Wild Duck Cluster is densely populated, containing over 2,900 stars. It is 6,200 light years from Earth.
