Ad Astra Observatory

Again, Cygnus is not really my first thought when it comes to open clusters (at least, not ones that seem to have no nebulosity surrounding them). But this cluster could rival anything in Auriga. And the pairing the the (obviously much-more-distant) NGC6946 (see other post from today) just really makes it a wonderful target.

This one was a “freebie”; I was aiming for the galaxy. But the planetarium software said there was a big cluster here, so I framed it in. Very nice.