M 26 (NGC 6694) Open Cluster in Scutum
Located at: RA 18 hours 45 minutes 12 seconds, Dec -09 degrees 23 minutes 00 seconds
Size: 14'; Magnitude: 8.0; Class: II 3 m
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -15c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 150 minutes (15 x 10 minute subs), 09/10/2007 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: |
Another Messier open cluster lost in a dense Milky Way field. M 26 is about 3.5 degrees SSW of M 11, on the southern edge of the Scutum Star Cloud |