Antares Area Images - Prime Focus
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 Antares area: Wider Field Pictures here

Antares area, M4, and NGC 6144

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