M5 in Serpens Caput
Above: 25 minutes, April, 2010 from the Davis Mountains. Takahashi TOA 130 Telescope (a 5" APO refractor) with reducer, AP 900GTO mount, and QHY8 CCD Camera & normal workflow.
This is a great binocular object in Scorpius. M6 is just north of (above) M7, in the low south during summer months. It's visible naked-eye from decent suburban skies. I believe that's part of NGC-6383 above right. Just before Midnight, 5/30/2005, Wimberly Texas. Effective frame size of a 1130mm lens considering the 1.5x magnification factor of my Nikon D100 Digital SLR (D-SLR) camera. Takahashi TOA 130 (5" APO refractor) With reducer, focal length is 754mm at f5.8
See other star clusters on Southern Star Clusters page.
See M6 in context on the Southern Milky Way page.
Clusters Page 1, Astrophotography: Clusters Page 2 by Dick Locke, Astrophotography: Clusters Page 3, by Dick Locke
Southern Scorpius: Cat's Paw Nebula, NGC 6634
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