astrophotography astro photo image Open Cluster in Scorpius ( M6 NGC6405 ) - Starlight Xpress MX5C - Orion ShortTube Refractor piggy-backed on Meade LX-200 Refractor (3.15inch / fl=400mm )

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Open Cluster in Scorpius ( M6 NGC6405 )

Size: 15' x 15' Magnitude: 4.20 RA: 17:40:06 DEC: 00:13:00 Best obeserved in June at midnight
Scope:	Orion ShortTube Refractor piggy-backed on Meade LX-200 Refractor (3.15inch / fl=400mm )
Imaging Method:	prime focus
Camera/CCD:	Starlight Xpress MX5C
Location:	110deg 45min 00sec west 32deg 10min 00sec north, Tucson, AZ (Shot from the front porch of my house facing south.)
Condition:	Seeing: fair - Transparency: fair
Exposure:	240.00
Description:	ALTAZ Mode, Unguided. Recorded as FITS, saved as TIF with MX5C SW. Processed With PaintShopPro V4.1 and saved as JPEG.
Photographer:	Alfredo Garcia, Jr. (Lt Col, USAF Retired), 02.05.2002 photo ranked: 2.23 with 22 votes (not realtime, last updated: 13.11.2009 12:50)
References to more Photos:	More of Open Cluster in Scorpius ( M6 NGC6405 ) More of Starlight Xpress MX5C More of Orion ShortTube Refractor piggy-backed on Meade LX-200 Refractor (3.15inch / fl=400mm ) More of Alfredo Garcia, Jr. (Lt Col, USAF Retired) More of prime focus

If you want to judge the quality of that photo, please... (Be fair and take into account that faint and small objects are more difficult than bright and big ones!)
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