Somebody somewhere said they could see V shaped groups of stars in this cluster, which gives this cluster its name. I've never seen it from their point of view. Its listed as an open cluster, but it looks a lot like M7 which is classified as a globular cluster. The difference is that here in M11 there are about 3000 young stars all expanding away from one another whereas in the globular cluster M7 they are an old group (billions of years old) of tens of thousands of stars all gravitationally stabilized around one another. This cluster is only about 250 million years old. It is fairly close to us at about 5000 light years away. It's located in the heart of the summer's Milky Way stream only 6 degrees below the galactic equator. It's the highest of the Messier objects (globulars, clusters and nebulae) above the teapot in that part of the Milky Way.

10" F6.3 Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope, (1600mm F.L.) Modified Canon 300D camera with Baader IR-UV filter and coma corrector, placed at the scopes prime focus
9 photos aligned and averaged together, then brightness, color, and contrast enhanced. Click on photo above for a full frame full rez image.
Each photo, 120 seconds exposure at ISO 800