Andrew Cooper
Nov 25, 2021    Waikoloa, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" GyPSy @ 127x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Big! Bright! the sublime sight of uncountable stars condensed into a 10' area, fuly resolved, a dense core, a 7th magnitude star on the northern margin

Andrew Cooper
Jul 19, 2021    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 136x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Big, bright and obvious, visible in the finder, 15' diameter, resolved, sharply rising in brightness to the center for a very dense core, the 6th magnitude HR 8231 is visible 17' east, visible in the finder 4° northwest in line with Biham

Andrew Cooper
Nov 10, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

A fine globular cluster, big, 15' diameter, bright and obvious, a brighter concentrated core, resolved, easy to find 4° out from Enif

Andrew Cooper
Jul 23, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 61x
Seeing: 5 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Big, bright and beautiful, about 15' in diameter with a small and dense core, resolved

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

Bright and easy to find one field northwest of Enif, round, small, not resolved, a trio of 6-7th magnitude stars brackets the cluster

Andrew Cooper
Oct 21, 2006    TIMPA, Avra Valley, AZ (map)
12x36 Canon Image Stabilized Binoculars

Bright and easy to find, small, round, not resolved

Andrew Cooper
Sep 18, 1998    NASP, Chino Valley, AZ (map)
20cm f/10 SCT

Decent, medium sized globular, stars easily resolved

Rev. T.W. Webb
May 19, 1885    Hardwick, Herefordshire, England (map)
24cm Reflector

Bright and resolvable (h., 15 mg.), blazing in centre; a glorious object with 9-1/3in. 'With' mirror. Very fine specimen of a completely insulated cluster, discovered by Miraldi, 1745. Buffham, with 9 in. spec. finds a dark path near the middle, with two faint dark 'lanes' or rifts, like those in M13, unnoticed by h. or D'A. 51 variable stars have been discovered in this cluster.

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

John Herschel
Oct 13, 1825    

Very bright; very large; irregularly round; gradually brightening and very suddenly much brighter toward the middle. A magnificent globular cluster; comes up to a perfect blaze in the centre, like a protuberance or nipple; not the condensation of a homogeneous globe; it has straggling streams of stars, as it were, drawing to a centre. It is not round. Has a star of 8th magnitude, 30 sec following in parallel.

Johann Elert Bode
Sep 23, 1774    Berlin Observatory, Germany (map)

On September 23, 1774, I found a new nebulous star with the 7-foot telescope, northward between the stars Epsilon or Enif, at the mouth of Pegasus, and Delta and Gamma at the mouth of Equuleus. It shows up as well as of round shape and enveloped in a dense nebula, wherein no stars are recognizable. I determined its separation from Epsilon as 4°14' and from Delta as 4°28'. It has about three small stars which are not contained in Flamsteed's catalog, a position as shown in the fourth figure, the separation of which I have mutually determined with the heliometer.

Charles Messier
Sep 11, 1760    

Nebula without a star, between the head of Pegasus and that of Equuleus; it is round, in the center it is brilliant, its position was determined by comparison with Delta Equulei. M. Maraldi, in the Memoirs of the Academy of 1746, reports of this nebula: "I have found, he says, between the stars Epsilon Pegasi and Beta Equulei, a fairly bright nebulous star, which is composed of many stars; its right ascension is 319d 27' 6", and its northern declination is 11d 2' 22.

― Connaissance des Temps, 1781

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