UK Schmidt Telescope image of M4 (the reddish globular slightly right of the lower middle), bright Antares in the lower left which enlightens a "selfmade" (by stellar wind) nebulous cloud of yellowish cool gas, in which faint globular NGC 6144 is very difficult to find, and hot blue Rho Ophiuchi at top center which has its blue light reflected in surrounding dust.

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• David Malin's informations on this image
• Compare the Old and New AAT Image Scans
• Similar image of Rho Oph, Antares and M4, from ROE/UKS
• This image was featured as Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) March 12, 1996, September 22, 1997 and May 21, 2000

Last Modification: May 9, 1998