Globular cluster M4

Posted by dcrowson
on Sunday, May 8, 2016

M4 (NGC 6121) is a Shapley-Sawyer class IX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2%80%93Sawyer_Concentration_Class) globular cluster located approximately 7,200 light-years away in Scorpius. It is easy to find in the sky because it is just over a degree away from the bright (magnitude ~1) star Antares (bottom right in the image).

NGC 6144 is the class XI globular at the top right.

Luminance – 12x600s – 120 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

240 minutes total exposure – 4 hours

Imaged on April 4th and 8th, 2016 at the Danville Conservation Area (New Florence, Missouri) with a SBIG ST-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT90EDT at f/6.7 603mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/26627906420/sizes/l

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