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M4 (Globular Cluster, in Scorpius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 5.1-inch equatorial reflector Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Aug 3 01:00:00 2021 UT Obs. no.: 2282
This evening, I took out my 5" short tube widefield telescope to do some general observing. The best object I saw was The Coat Hanger star group which I viewed at 25X. The Coat Hanger is a fine binocular object but my widefield scope allows you to enjoy the whole object at higher power. I also viewed the area of Cygnus were I saw star clusters & asterisms. There was one group of stars that was all strung out which was quite a site. I did get to see the globular cluster M4 which looked like a small blurry star in my scope. A wide field scope allows you to see so much of the sky & that is why I love this scope.
M4 (Globular Cluster, in Scorpius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 5.1-inch equatorial reflector Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Aug 3 01:00:00 2021 UT Obs. no.: 2281
This evening, I took out my 5" short tube widefield telescope to do some general observing. The best object I saw was The Coat Hanger star group which I viewed at 25X. The Coat Hanger is a fine binocular object but my widefield scope allows you to enjoy the whole object at higher power. I also viewed the area of Cygnus were I saw star clusters & asterisms. There was one group of stars that was all strung out which was quite a site. I did get to see the globular cluster M4 which looked like a small blurry star in my scope. A wide field scope allows you to see so much of the sky & that is why I love this scope.
M4 (Globular Cluster, in Scorpius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: binoculars Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Mar 17 05:45:00 2002 UT Obs. no.: 629
In 10x50 binoculars m4 looks like a true globular cluster.when viewed through any telescope m4 seems to lose its globular appeance to me.
M4 (Globular Cluster, in Scorpius)
Observer: Mark Stutzman (e-mail: mark@cca.ci.coatesville.pa.us)
Instrument: 4 1/2-inch equatorial reflector Location: Gilbertsville, PA, usa
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Sun Jun 21 02:30:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 348
I spent tonights time carefully going through scorpius viewing all the many clusters and wonderfull sights in it. M4 next to antares was nice as was M80 this evening. I wish scorpius would rise higher in the sky than it does because alot gets lost in light pollution of a nearby town to me. All the same it was great!
M4 (Globular Cluster, in Scorpius, Est. RaDec 16:23.6, -26:32)
Observer: Byung Hoon Kang (e-mail: astronist@usa.net, web: http://web.syr.edu/~bkang)
Instrument: 2032-mm Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector Location: Syracuse, NY, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: poor
Time: Sat Jun 20 03:27:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 355
Telescope(Celestron Powerstar 8), Eyepiece(Celestron Silver Top Plossl 26mm), Magnification(78x), Location(Tully, NY)-----Darling Hill Observatory at Tully, home of SAS(Syracuse Astronomical Society)'s 16-inch aperture Newtonian reflecting telescope and classroom. It was a pretty cloudy night, but I could see M4 between clouds. During that night, M4 was the only object I could see.
M4 (Globular Cluster, in Scorpius)
Observer: John Callender (e-mail: jbc@west.net, web: http://www.west.net/~jbc/)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Carpinteria, CA, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Sat Jul 5 07:20:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 192
Easy at 49x, a diffuse glow with a sprinkling of foreground stars, especially a north/south line of stars that seemed to bound the east side of the cluster, giving it a semi-circular look. The north/south line of stars was even more prominent at 122x and 244x, since the background glow disappeared at those magnifications.
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