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      M6
      Wallpaper author:
      Dan Crowson

      02 Apr 2023

      M6

      M6 (NGC 6405, Collinder 341, the Butterfly Cluster and others) is a is a trumpler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpler_classification) class II 3 r open cluster located approximately 1,600 light-years away in Scorpius.

      Luminance – 11x600s – 110 minutes – binned 1x1

      RGB – 15:13:12x600s – 150:130:120 minutes each – binned 1x1

      510 minutes total exposure – 8 hours 30 minutes

      Imaged eleven nights from August, 2021 through June, 2022 at the El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile) with a FLI PL 9000 on a PlaneWave CDK24 at f/6.5 3974 mm.

      LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/52785973617/sizes/l/

      This data is from Telescope Live (https://telescope.live/) “One-click Observations.”

      See my previous refractor image here - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/26939336543.

      Dataset from which the image was processed

      M6

      6 credit

      Open
      Telescope Live
      CHI-1-CCD
      • Type of target
        ............................................................................................................................
        Open Cluster
      • Camera
        ............................................................................................................................
        FLI ProLine PL9000
      • Target coordinates
        ............................................................................................................................
        RA 265.0833 Dec -32.25
      • Hemisphere
        ............................................................................................................................
        Southern
      • Telescope location
        ............................................................................................................................
        Chile
      • Transient event
        ............................................................................................................................
        No
      • Observed on
        ............................................................................................................................
        11 Aug 2020 - 06 Jun 2022
      Filter
      Avg Exp (s)
      Total Exposure
      Subframes
      Luminance5602h20m15
      Red6802h50m15
      Green6002h30m15
      Blue5602h20m15

      M6