Comments on: M11, “The Wild Duck Cluster” https://astrodoc.ca/m11/ Astrodoc.ca - Images of the Universe Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:55:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: M71 Globular Cluster - Astrodoc: Astrophotography by Ron Brecher https://astrodoc.ca/m11/#comment-1371 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:19:15 +0000 http://astrodoc.ca/?p=5033#comment-1371 […] The object at the centre of this image is M71.  For a long time, M71 was classified as an OC.  However now it’s known to be a rather loosely packed GC, located about 12,000 light years from us.   To me it looks like a GC when I look through an eyepiece, but images make it look more like a rich open cluster (e.g. M11). […]

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