Andrew Cooper
Aug 21, 2017    Grants Spring, OR (map)
76mm f/6 APO, TeleVue-76 @ 30x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

A faint patch of stars 2.5° south of Mirfak, round, about 10' across, rich, unresolved, an 8th magnitude star on the south margin, well detached from the rich starfield

Andrew Cooper
Aug 11, 2013    Indian Springs, Oregon Star Party (map)
Regalo de Estrella 6" f/5.4 @ 59x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

A faint glow betrays a subtle cluster, inspection reveals more stars as the cluster begins to resolve, about 10' in diameter

Andrew Cooper
Dec 27, 2003    TIMPA, Avra Valley, AZ (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Good sized, very rich! innumerable stars in a circular patch at the center of the constellation, anchored at the NE and SE corners by a pair of bright stars

Rev. T.W. Webb
May 19, 1885    Hardwick, Herefordshire, England (map)

A low power shows a very faint large cloud of minute stars (h. 12-15 mg.), beautifully bordered by a brighter foreshortened pentagon.

― Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, T. W. Webb, 1917

Captain William Henry Smyth
Oct 5, 1836    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A very extensive and compressed cluster, on the right side of Perseus, in a rich portion of the galaxy; and it has a gathering spot, about 4' in diameter, where the star-dust glows among the minute points of light. This elegant sprinkle was registered, in December, 1786, by ♅., who says, "the large stars are arranged in lines like interwoven letters." It is H.'s No. 290, of the Catalogue of 1833: I derive its mean apparent place by differentiation from α Persei, from which it lies at an angle = 9° with the vertical, at a distance of nearly 8° in space.

― A Cycle of Celestial Objects Vol II, The Bedford Catalogue, William Henry Smyth, 1844

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