Andrew Cooper
Jun 12, 2022    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 5 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Big! rich, a mass of stars that fill the 1° field, a handful of 8th to 9th magnitude stars outline a region of much fainter 11th+ magnitude stars that swarm across a 15' region, rich, resolved, notably distinct in a rich galactic starfield, visible in the 40mm finder

Andrew Cooper
Jun 27, 2020    Waikoloa Quarry, HI (map)
8x42mm Nikon Prostaff 3S Binoculars @ 8x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

A conspicuous object south of 41Cyg, a patch of haze about 1/2°, about half of that east-west, appears as a bright thick clump of galactic starfield without any other such clump nearby

Andrew Cooper
Jul 6, 2002    TIMPA, Avra Valley, AZ (map)
25cm f/10 SCT

Large! rich open cluster of 11th magnitude stars, a few 8th and 9th magnitude stars to the south of the main concentration and one on the north edge

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

Field of minute stars.

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

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