In the last 2½ years, my Photoshop skills have improved so I had another go at processing this composite of the Moon, Antares, M4 and NGC6144.
At around 1:50am, on April 24th in 2008, there was a conjunction of our Moon, the brilliant red star Antares and globular clusters M4 & NGC 6144 in Scorpius. Due to the huge difference in the brightness range of these celestial objects, it was impossible to capture their splendour in a single photo.
However, I managed to grab some images of the stellar background (sans Moon), from the previous week and combine these in Photoshop with a photo of the Moon taken just after 1:49am on the 24th April.
Background star field taken with a Vixen ED102S F9 refractor with Canon 40D DSLR camera at prime focus.
Moon image taken with a Takahashi Mewlon 180 at F9.6 using x0.8 Flattener/Reducer with Canon 40D DSLR camera.
So, if your eyes had a sufficiently large dynamic range, this is what you might have observed, if you had been outdoors in the wee hours of 24th April 2008.
Cheers
Dennis