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Faiz Ahmad
Virginia, US
07/09/2020
11:39 pm

Equipment Details:

Triplet APO Refractor Telescope and Canon 80D Mod.

Post-processing Details:

Stacked and stretched 10 Lights and 10 Darks and GIMP to further process.

Image Details:

The Butterfly Cluster (cataloged as Messier 6 or M6, and as NGC 6405) is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Scorpius. Its name derives from the vague resemblance of its shape to a butterfly.

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