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M11 (Wild Duck Cluster) (Open Cluster, in Scutum)
Observer: Andrew Cooper (e-mail: acooper@pobox.com, web: http://www.siowl.com/)
Instrument: 46-cm Dobsonian reflector Location: TIMPA, near Tucson, Arizona, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Aug 28 05:43:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1291
Rich cluster in a rich Milky Way starfield, about 10' in diameter, cluster members surprisingly even in magnitude with one very bright orange star, a number of very obvious rifts divide the cluster into uneven clumps
NGC6712 (Globular Cluster, in Scutum)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Tue Jun 7 21:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1315
When I was looking for M26, I chanced to look at a conspicuous but faint globular cluster like object in the constellation of Scutum. When I went back to software and verified, I found out that I had accidentally found NGC6712, a 8.1 mag globular in Scutum. A pair of conspicuous stars neighbours the globular.
M26 (Open Cluster, in Scutum)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Tue Jun 7 16:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1316
Very small bu conspicuously hazy patch at about 80x, but reveals a fairly dence starfield at 170x. It is about 1 degree of arc away from Delta Scutum (I suppose).
M26 (Open Cluster, in Scutum)
Observer: Emil Neata (e-mail: forvert2000@yahoo.com, web: http://www.astroclubul.org/emilneata)
Instrument: 60-mm refractor Location: Craiova, Romania
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Jan 25 00:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1162
M 26 - Small and faint. I've didn't manage to resolve it into stars, even at high power. Towards the center I've seen two stars
M11 (Wild Duck Cluster) (Open Cluster, in Scutum)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in)
Instrument: 50-mm refractor Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: good
Time: Wed Aug 11 23:30:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1214
it appeared as an unresolved irregular globular cluster against the background of the milky way. if i had not read earlier that it would appear as an uncondensed globular through telescopes smaller than 8 inch(200 mm),i would have really mistaken it for a globular cluster.its really a unique sight through my telescope.it did appear as a wild duck's 'beak' but not like a wild duck as a whole!
M11 (Wild Duck Cluster) (Open Cluster, in Scutum)
Observer: Mark Stutzman (e-mail: mark@cca.ci.coatesville.pa.us)
Instrument: 4 1/2-inch equatorial reflector Location: Gilbertsville, PA, usa
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Wed Jul 1 03:00:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 354
What a wonderfull night!! A few hours after some powerfull thunderstorms blew through the sky cleared up and provided some of the best views this year for me so far on clusters like the wild duck cluster and all the other clusters and nebula visible in this region of the sky. All the messier objects I observed are to numerous to name here but lets say that not a stone was left unturned.
M11 (Wild Duck Cluster) (Open Cluster, in Scutum)
Observer: Rob Teeter (e-mail: webuser@thecore.com, web: http://www.thecore.com/~webuser/)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Howell, NJ, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Jun 30 16:35:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 358
Started out at with a 40 Plossl to locate the Wild Duck Cluster. Once it slid into the field of view, it was apparent that 31x was not enough for this object. At 31x it was a fuzzy patch of light, with a bright central, yellow, star. I then placed in my 25mm Ortho and was amazed at the clarity of the given image! I had given up on the Ortho because of it's name, Ortho, but I now see that it is quite a sharp and contrasty ocular. At 49x the cluster was fully resolved and showed a 3D effect because of the bright, yellow, star off center. I then stepped down to a 20 Plossl, 12 Plossl and finally a 7 Nagler. All showed outstanding images! Tack-sharp stars and a dark background. Although, this time around, I could not make out the Wild Duck shape to the cluster.
M11 (Wild Duck Cluster) (Open Cluster, in Scutum)
Observer: Harold Williams (e-mail: clouseau@webtv.net)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Jun 20 16:00:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 351
This observation was made at the Mason/Dixon Star Party just south of York, Pennsylvania. It was a very humid night. While it was very soupy, the sky was fairly stable. This observation was made with a friends 18" Starmaster. While this was a very beautiful group of stars, I wasn't able to see the Wild Duck shape. That was just me. Many others could. I've seen most of the Messier clusters but this one immediately became my favorite.
NGC6712 (Globular Cluster, in Scutum, Est. RaDec 18h53m, -8d42')
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 17-inch other Location: Harrisburg, Pa, U.S.A.
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Fri Jun 27 04:30:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 155
I reobserved NGC 6712, a globular cluster in a rich area of the Milky Way near the planetary nebula IC 1295, because of the recent interest in this object on sci.astro.amateur. I first used a Cave 12.5" f/6.5 Newtonian reflector and at 65x (32mm U.O. Konig-II) the NGC 6712 appeared as a nebulous patch. Using my 19mm Panoptic (109x) did not resolve the globular. At 159x (13mm T.V. Ploessl) the cluster was somewhat resolved and had an irregular oval shape. About 45 minutes later I used a 17" f/15 classical Cassegrain at 202x (32mm Koing-II) and 341x (19 mm Panoptic) to view NGC 6712. At 341x I could see a distinctly elliptical shape and a hint of the dark lane on the southeast edge that the Webb Society's book on globular clusters mentions. NGC 6712 is a fairly large class 9 Herschel 400 globular of around 9th magnitude. I also located 2 new Herschel globulars that night, namely NGC 6144 near Antares and NGC 6426 northwest of Gamma Ophiuchi. NGC 6426 was particularly faint, being just at the limit of visibility with averted vision.
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