Scorpio (thing)

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       Sargas

• Right Ascension: 17 hours
• Declination: -40 degrees
• Visible between latitudes: 40 and -90 degrees
• Best seen in July (9pm)

Deep sky objects

• M4 (globular cluster)
• M6 The Butterfly Cluster (open cluster)
• M7 Ptolemy's Cluster (open cluster)
• M80 (globular Cluster)
• NGC-6144 (globular cluster)
• NGC-6231 (stellar nursery)

  Some accounts have it that these stars were seen as a scorpion by the early Mesopotanian civilizations 3000 BC.