The Wild Duck (Messier 11)

[mariosi]

Messier 11

The Wild Duck Cluster is an open Cluster in constellation Scutum apparent magnitude 6.3

 It was discovered by Gottfried Kirchner in 1681.Charles Messier included it in his catalogue in 1764 (Wikipedia).

 

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Regards 

Marios

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Stu]

Lovely sketch Marios, you've captured it beautifully

[Richard Hather]

Great deal Marios, the sketch really draws you in excellent job ☺️

Richard

[Special K]

Yes indeed!  Great sketch of what I consider an unusual cluster: It's all bundled very tightly and very unlike other open clusters.

[acr_astro]

Hi Marios!

Excellent sketch of M11. Andyou're lucky that M11 rises higher in Cyprus compared to middle of Germany.

 

Achim

[laudropb]

Wow, that really is a lovely sketch Marios.

[rory]

Lovely work . 

[Peter Drew]

As others have said, excellent sketch. With the chance to look at it at leisure, it seems to me that the central dark spaces within the cluster suggests ducks in flight.

[cotterless45]

Wonderful sketch, looked very find from a dark site,

Nick.

[todd8137]

Hi nice wild duck all im have  is clouds 

pat

[goodricke1]

An object one simply never gets tired of looking at.

[mikeDnight]

A quality sketch Mario's! 

[alan potts]

Without a doubt one of the best pieces of sketch work I have seen on site, very well done and thanks for sharing.

Alan

[N3ptune]

My favourite cluster so far, great work Mariosi.

[todd8137]

On 23 September 2016 at 17:10, alan potts said:

Without a doubt one of the best pieces of sketch work I have seen on site, very well done and thanks for sharing.

Alan

Hi there  thats a big staement to make  wjhat brought you to this conclusion  ? Im interested in what people think makes a good sketch ,and the best sketch 

marios as some fine sketches and i admire his work so am sure he womt mind me asking you this ?

[alan potts]

Apart from the fact it had a feel of an eyepiece image about it I just really liked it. I also said it was one of the best I had seen, not having seen every scetch on site. I was once very talented in the art department but threw it all away when an Uncle arranged a place for me at art school when I felt a place should have be given on merit, like anyone else would have.

Alan