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Originally Posted by mithrandir
You can get Stellarium or CdC or C2A to show you that bit of sky for a similar time. From looking at them I find:
NGC6441 (4' from SAO 209318) is more on a line from M7 to Kappa Sco or i1 Sco than to Shaula.
NGC6400 (1.7 deg from SAO 209172) is closer to your line but is 1.5 magnitudes dimmer.
They all fall into a circle radius about 3 deg centred on NGC6441.
Scorpio is a busy piece of sky, so being sure you have the right one can be hard.
Andrew
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I have stellarium, but just discovered I didn't have the 'nebula' switch turned on.
NGC 6400 looks more like the position I had, but as I said, my finder was a little off, so going by the fact that 6441 has a star close, I think this is what it was. I'll properly align my finder before I look again. I had it on another scope and forgot to re align it when I put it back on the 5".
Thanks Andrew.
