False Comet NGC 6231 Area (77mm 5DII)

The False Comet Cluster area of southern Scorpius, which includes the open cluster NGC 6231 and emission nebula IC 4628, and open cluster NGC 6242 at top. This is a superb binocular field.

I shot this March 30/31, 2014 from Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia using the Borg 77mm astrographic apo refractor (330mm focal length) at f/4.3 for a stack of 5 x 10 minutes exposures with the filter-modified Canon 5D Mark II at ISO 800.

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