Thursday, June 25, 2020

Butterfly Cluster Messier M6

Open starcluster Messier M6 or Butterfly Cluster is located in constellation scorpius and about 1590 light years away from Earth. The cluster is moving around our own galaxy every 200 million years. 

The picture is taken withn Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6. Setting ISO320 and 26x30s exposure time. Raw data was converted to DNG and stacking with DeepSkyStacker. Editing using CS4 and DeNoise AI.

At the moment of making the pictures, M6 was only 5° above the southern-eastern horizon.