M 34

[Wiu-Wiu]

Open cluster M34 is high in the sky these days, nice to escape the light pollution and get some of those fainter stars in there. 

It is a nice view at low magnification, but the sight of all those field stars made me decide to zoom in a bit more - and save myself a bunch of work

There are a bunch of nice pairs in the cluster, lighting the way. One star had a light yellow-orangy glow to it. 

 

[Richard Hather]

Beautiful sketch I had the same thought last night at 50x the amount of stars were very overwhelming so I upped it to 75x still a challenge though but a lovely target to observe and sketch excellent job ?