Need Help With Identifying A Star Formation

[Dwight Huth]

I took the following image of a star through my telescope a few months ago. I haven't been able to identify the star or stars around it as the Sky and Telescope locator on the website doesn't have a function of adding seconds for precise determination of the object being viewed. I think the star formation is part of Draco as I took the photo three minutes before I took a photo of Vega.

 

[rod]

Recommend using Stellarium or Starry Night software. You can run simulations for your specific location and different dates and time too. Good sky or star charts created. Stellarium 0.19.2 is a free download, I received Starry Night with a new telescope recently. I use Starry Night Pro Plus 8, I enjoy very much with ephemeris generated too that I store in MS Excel. These software tools have excellent stars in their databases, brighter and very faint stars too not visible to unaided eye views or binocular users.

 

[rod]

Two more tools here. MS Worldwide Telescope or MS WWT. I use this application as well. SkySafari too, but I think mostly for Apple IOS devices. Using software like this for my observation runs - helps me very much in my notes maintained in my stargazing log (MS ACCESS DB).