The Coathanger

This is Cr399 Brocchi's Cluster or the Coathanger asterism due to it's distinctive shape. It's in the constellation Vulpecula.

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Nice. This is on my "to do" list.

Very nice troy . Boy that is a lot of stars !

lovely image, but wow - that is a lot of stars

Thanks guys. It's right in the Milky Way, so plenty of stars as you say. I believe they're that golden colour from lots of interstellar dust between us and them.

I think I actually stretched this too far in hindsight, but noisy in the dark patches.

By the way, I didn't mention there's a tiny red planetary nebula at the top of image at about 1 o'clock.

troypiggo wrote in post #14883403
By the way, I didn't mention there's a tiny red planetary nebula at the top of image at about 1 o'clock.

No you didn't mention that and Yes there is a planetary neb for sure and i scanned the whole shot and missed that . That is PK 55+ 2.1 . It's in Vulpecula constellation . Hard to find except at medium to high power with a neb filter . Other than that it shows nicely in a long exposure image .

Nice shot Troy, what FL/scope where you using for this?

Thanks mate. This was shot on my TMB92SS, 506mm FL. Camera was QSI583.