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Faiz Ahmad
Virginia, USA
08/02/2020
11:22 pm

Equipment Details:

Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope FL 2032mm, Aperture 8mm. Canon 80D mod.

Post-processing Details:

Stacked and stretched.

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.

Image at right top corner is a vague resemblance of its shape to a butterfly. The main image is without a line.