M4 Globular Cluster in Scorpius

[Tamtarn]

Data captured on 6-4-08. Just recently processed.

We find this a beautiful cluster. Within the cluster there are small arcs of stars here and there. Some blue some yellow and orange making it an interesting subject.

Some information from Daniel Verschaste's website.

[quote] At less then 6500 light years, Messier 4 may be the nearest globular cluster to the sun. Interstellar absorption in this direction is estimated at 1.4 magnitudes and accounts for yellow-orange star colour [End Quote]

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Image Details

5 Light and 5 Dark frames all 5mins ... ISO800

Canon 40D ... Skywatcher 200mm Newtonian

Higher res http://barb.david.1.googlepages.com/home

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[Dennis]

Hi Barb & Dave

An excellent image, very nicely captured and presented. I managed to grab a series of 10 x 30 secs through the Vixen 4” refractor of M4, in-between clouds a couple of nights ago, in preparation for a possible montage when the Moon moves into this region on 24th April.

Cheers

Dennis

[theodog]

Nice one Barb & Dave.
Great rep of coloured stars and nice and deep.
Well done.:)

[dugnsuz]

Very nice B&D,
Love to see Globs like this with lots of colour and detail to look at!
Well done again
Doug

[Ric]

A lovely image Barb & Dave, nice tight stars, the colours look great and the globular is well resolved right into the core.

A great image.

[spearo]

Well done
the colors look great and the image is lovely and sharp
cheers
frank

[Tamtarn]

That sounds like an interesting project Dennis. Look forward to seeing the result



Thanks Jeff the colours in this glob really grabbed us



Thanks again Doug



Loved doing this one Eric

[jase]

That's a treat of a cluster Barb and David. Well done.

[dcalleja]

Really well resolved. A nice glob to image.

[Lester]

Well done, like the colours of the stars.

[Inmykombi]

Hi Barb and David,

I love your image.

To me, the colours reveal the age of the Glob, as it really is.
I am not sure what Interstellar absorbtion is though...I show my ignorance...and I appologise in advance....

The stars appear yellowish to me and display their true age.

From what I read, " Globs " contain older type stars, and I think you have captured this very very well in this image.
I happen to enjoy tracking down " Globs " when I can, and enjoy the great variety they display.
Its good to have some colour revealed in your image....

I looked at M4 through some bino viewers that were loaned to me at the SPSP, and nearly fell off my chair it was so beautiful.
If you get the chance to do the same, let me know what you think....

Well done.....Keep it up.

Geoffro.

[Terry B]

Very nice globular.
Good work:)

[Tamtarn]

Thanks for the comment Jase



Yes we enjoyed doing this one Dan



Thanks Lester



Thanks Geoff. We enjoy imaging clusters and try and interpret the star colours correctly. Don't know if you visited our web page. We have started to get a bit of a collection of some interesting ones if you wanted to take a look.

Next dark skies we have we're going to roll out the Dob which hasn't had a great deal of use since we started imaging :(. So we will take a peek at M4 then we'll let you know how we go..

[Tamtarn]

Thanks for commenting Frank and Terry

[AlexN]

Not to sound like every other poster in the thread... Great glob! :)

I particularly like how crisp the image is right the way to the center, and the 4 very bright stars in the lower half of the FOV.

10/10!

[Tamtarn]

Thanks for taking the time to comment Alex much appreciated

[Alchemy]

crisp with nice colours,

hopefully the smoke will clear away for you soon so more imaging can be done.

Cheers clive.

[winensky]

Bright, great colours and sharp as a tack. Who could ask for more?

[Tamtarn]

Not sure about the smoke clearing Clive the dept is apparently going to burn all through autumn :mad2::mad2: Hope they give us a break at new moon



Appreciate your comments Matt