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Finally decided to give up waiting for Sagittarius to rise high enough as I am near frozen solid. Currently 1 degree!
I didn't want to waste the night so I went to the SEDS site and looked up some targets on their sky map of Scorpius.
M7 sounded interesting but there was a more tantalising target hidden in between M7 and K Scorpii. It is a tiny Gobular called NGC 6441. So off I went in search of this little critter.
I started with a star hop to get to M7. Found that very easy! O.K, now to hop half way between M7 and K Scorpii to bring me to G Scorpii. And there it was, clear as day, a tiny but very bright Globular Cluster right next to G Scorpii. Both of them in a 15mm EP look very attractive together.
Had to give up for the night again as the frost is back and I'm frozen. Below is a pic of NGC 6441 and G Scorpii courtesy of the SEDS site exactly as I saw them.
Give yourself the challenge and see if you can find NGC 6441 (without GoTo's).
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