Object	M11 / NGC 6705
Scale	3.54 arc-secs/pixel
North angle	0.55°
Date	09/30/00
Location	Lockwood Valley, CA
Equipment	TeleVue 101, ST7E, GM8
Processing	30 Sec. Gamma Stretch and DDP
Notes	Very low on the horizon and the seeing was going. Out of four images only two were good.
Background	M11 or The Wild Duck Cluster is an open cluster (galactic cluster) in Sculptor about 5,600 light years away. The stars in this cluster are bright blue, of course I am only imaging in b&w, but their color reveal a very young age as far as astronomical objects go, about a few million years old. Eventually all the bright stars will burn out and leave a much less dense object with longer living, cooler burning red stars. Open clusters are generally found in the galactic plane as opposed to globular clusters that are found in a roughly spherical halo around the galactic center.