Duck Hunter is a video game. The Wild Party is a raucous poem from the roaring 20’s. The Wild Duck Cluster is a cluster of stars in the constellation the Shield. Why is it called “wild duck?” The brightest stars in the cluster form a triangle which could — if you squint really hard — resemble a flock of ducks. Here’s more from Astronomy Now:

The Wild Duck Cluster in Scutum, known also Messier 11 and NGC 6705, is a deep-sky showpiece of the summer sky as one of the most spectacular open clusters in the heavens. Indeed, first timers gazing at it through the eyepiece could be forgiven for thinking they’re looking at a globular cluster, it’s so rich. It has the advantage too of lying on the northern edge of the Scutum star cloud in an overall spectacular summer Milky Way field brimming over with myriad sparkling stars. 

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