A couple of buried clusters

[petevasey]

Buried in the mass of Milky Way stars within the Swan asterism of Cygnus lie a couple of NGC clusters, 6883 and 6871. They can be seen off centre left and right in this image, although 6883 is well lost amid the myriad background stars. I imaged this mainly out of casual interest - a nice target for my QSI camera on TS 65 refractor. But was interested to see tendrils of dust, particularly around the periphery. There was some high thin cloud during the imaging session on 30th October 2021 and I had to scrap some sub frames, but of course the dark areas didn't move! Luminance 14 x 5 minutes, RGB each 7 x 5 minutes, all unbinned.  Larger image on my web page here.