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The amount of detail in this image is staggering. This brilliant star cloud in Scutum is seen as a puff of Milky Way mist on late summer evenings, but to the Schmidt camera, contains a host of intricate objects. Just to the upper left of center is the resolved rich open cluster M11. The large brownish cloud of stars to the right on the top edge is a very dust obscured NGC6682. The medium bright "star" in the lower left corner near the bottom is the globular cluster NGC6712. and above M11 is a hoard of small Barnard dark nebula to explore.

If you have the bandwidth, please check out the larger images, there is so much to see in this image. As always, with so many tiny stars, selecting a compromising compression level does soften the stars a bit.

Instrument:  8" f/1.5 Celestron Schmidt Camera
Platform:  Homemade GEM
Film:  Kodak Supra 400
CCD Autoguider: ST4
Exposure:  2x8mins
Filters:  NONE
Location:  Happy Jack, Arizona
Elevation:  6800 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 8/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  15 C
Processing: Photoshop, PW Pro.

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