Andrew Cooper
Nov 2, 2008    Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
12x36 Canon Image Stabilized Binoculars @ 12x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Large bright cluster, over ½° across, coarse, fully resolved in the binoculars, visible to the unaided eye, a large and quite faint nebula surrounds the cluster (NGC2246, NGC2238 and NGC2237)

Andrew Cooper
Mar 17, 2004    Sycamore House, Tucson, AZ (map)
28cm f/10 SCT Nexstar 11

Large, bright, coarse, several dozen stars scattered across more than 20', ten bright stars anchor the cluster, no nebulosity visible in the city allowing one to appreciate the cluster

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

Beautiful; visible to the naked eye; including 12, 6mg. yellow; and many 7 and 9 mg. stars. The smallest, 14 mg., run in rays. Small pair near centre.

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

Captain William Henry Smyth
Mar 3, 1836    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A tolerably compressed cluster, between the Unicorn's fore legs. This is a brilliant gathering of large and small stars, from the 7th to the 14th magnitude; the latter running in rays. It was first registered by Sir William Herschel in the summer of 1784, and is No. 392 of his son's Catalogue. Its place is differentiated from α Orionis; and it may be found nearly in mid-distance between Pollux and α Leporis, where it is crossed by a line led from Procyon to the west, and passed between Orion's belt and his right shoulder, about 2° below Bellatrix.

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

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