Antares area: Wider Field Pictures here

This picture shows an area around Antares. Check out the alternate versions below. Antares is the brightest star in Scorpius. Given star's red-yellow color, and the fact that Mars is a similar color, Antares was given a name that means "The Rival of Mars." Antares is surrounded a rare yellowish nebula. NGC6144 is the small globular cluster above center, while M4 is the large globular cluster on the lower right. Image Details: 8x4 minute exposures on 3/25/2006 at HAS site near Columbus, TX, USA. Canon EOS 20Da (unmodified), Takahashi TOA 130 (a 5" APO refractor), Losmandy G-11 mount. My current image processing workflow is here.
![]() Bigger Version (1200 pixels wide) of above | ![]() Close-up of globular cluster M4. May be about 7,200 light years away, making it the closes. SEDS has more info. |

Above: 6x4 = 24 minute exposure; otherwise same info as above. The other HAS Pix from 3/25/2006 are here.

Rho Ophiuchi Nebula, IC 4603, IC 4604

Southern Scorpius: Cat's Paw Nebula, NGC 6634
Antares area: Wider Field Pictures here
Astronomy Pictures: Dick Locke's Astrophoto Gateway page....
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