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Kainushi

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Good evening, Everyone,


 


I have a question about the globular cluster M4 (NGC 6121).  I know it is next to Antares.  I believe I have seen it, but it was surprisingly dim, so much so that I wondered if I hadn’t been hallucinating.  My wife and I found an excellent dark spot near our house, and while we were there last night she took a picture which captured my candidate for M4.  


 


I have attached two photographs, taken last night: 


 


The first photograph (20140726-Poss M4) shows the fuzzy suspect within a yellow circle.  I cropped this from the second photograph.


 


The second photograph (20140726-2213JST) is a view of the southern sky, as seen from our dark spot.  My wife was aiming for the Milky Way; so, Scorpius appears at the bottom of the image.


 


So, here is my (by now obvious) question: is that M4 inside the yellow circle?


 


Many thanks!


 


 


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Paul73

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By what Paul?

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Sorry. That was me diving into the M4 identification element and not twigging that there was a second photo (despite the OP clearly stating "the second photo"). One of the risks of doing things on the go and on a little screen.

For obvious reasons, I was struggling to work out how the first photo could contain the Lagoon, but thought it unlikely that you had made a mistake like that. I should have probably expanded on the nature of my confusion. Or read the post properly........

Paul

PS. How do you post a Sky Safari screenshot?

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Stu

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:-), easily done!!

With an iPhone, if you hold the power button down and quickly press the central button at the bottom, it takes a copy of the screen and puts it in the camera roll. Very handy for all sorts of things, including SkySafari

Stu

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Special K

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:-), easily done!!

With an iPhone, if you hold the power button down and quickly press the central button at the bottom, it takes a copy of the screen and puts it in the camera roll. Very handy for all sorts of things, including SkySafari

Stu

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Hi Stu, is that the SkySafari Pro version?

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alan potts

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Not an easy object from England, it is always low down. I was on it the other night with the 12 inch LX and even with that it's not in your face by any means. I have looked for it with my binos but at X10.5 I don't think there is really enough power and handholding is not the best thing to do.

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Paul73

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I've only caught is a few times in the UK with the 10" Dob. Sometimes a faintish smudge, mostly empty haze.....

However, by moving 4° further south and to some dark dark sky, I got it in my 10x50s. It was very faint. Took a good ten mins to verify that this wasn't a case of wishful thinking, but it was definitely there, just like in the picture.

Paul

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