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Hi Molly,
NGC 6441 is one of my favourite globs. On a good clear night, when it's up nice and high enough, in suburbia you can spot it naked eye.
Hubby came home one night, ran out out of the car practically, to retrieve me outside, as he could see it and had to know what it was. Binos showed it up as a glob. This is when we first discovered Scorpio last year. I had a bit of trouble finding the catalogue no for this glob as none of my maps at the time had it. And one of the other reasons I love it so much is I keep getting it in my scope when I'm not even trying to. Its so little, yet so tight and bright.
Edit: I've been informed by a good friend of mine, that seeing this visually naked eye may have been confused with the clusters M6 & M7 that reside right next to this glob as this glob is very dim to the naked eye (mag.7) We still saw the glob all the same, but the cluster seems to be what we saw naked eye. Apologies for the confusion.
By the way, NGC 6441 is one of only four globs that houses a planetary nebula!!!
Last edited by Suzy; 14-03-2011 at 11:00 PM.
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