Scutum Star Cloud

[laser_jock99]

Another wide field centered on M11 Wild Duck Cluster in Scutum. Of particular interest is the 'shield' itself- a very dense area of stars in the Milky Way, visible a pronounced bright patch. The patches of dark dust in the area are also of note.

Scutum- 300s @ ISO1000, Nikon 80-200mm Zoom @ 80mm, Fuji S5 Pro DSLR, dark sky site in Mid Wales

Anotated Version

[xtreemchaos]

amazing image mate,cracking detail. thanks for sharing. charl.

[Martin Meredith]

Exceedingly good for 5 mins work!  Always good to see the annotation too.

Martin

[MarsG76]

Fantastic image...

[laser_jock99]

At the 200mm end of the zoom range M11 looks like this

Again a single 300s sub (unguided).

[laudropb]

Very nice capture. Thanks for posting.

[Pete Presland]

Fantastic unguided images