Andrew Cooper
Sep 3, 2021    Waikoloa, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" GyPSy @ 175x
Seeing: 5 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Small, bright and obvious, round with a concentrated core, partially resolved, 3' diameter

Andrew Cooper
Jun 24, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 81x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Small, bright, a dense core, fully resolved, the margins are lost in a heavy galactic starfield

Andrew Cooper
Oct 22, 2016    Kaʻohe, Mauna Kea, HI (map)
51cm f/4 Newtonian, Obsession #004 @ 169x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

A very nice globular in Lyra, rich, compact, about 5' across, fully resolved, a beautiful cluster with a scattering of brighter members against the body of dimmer stars making up the bulk of the cluster, easy to find halfway along the line from γLyr to Alberio

Andrew Cooper
Oct 27, 2006    Waimea, HI (map)
12x36 Canon Image Stabilized Binoculars

Small, dim, round, not resolved, easily located off Alberio

Andrew Cooper
Aug 27, 2006    TIMPA, Avra Valley, AZ (map)
28cm f/10 SCT Gypsy

Smaller globular in the margin of the Milky Way, rich, moderately well condensed at the core, fully resolved, about 5' in diameter, nicely framed in a set of brighter outliers

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

Smallish globular, stars barely resolved with averted vision, not very spectacular

Rev. T.W. Webb
May 19, 1885    Hardwick, Herefordshire, England (map)
94mm f/18 Tully Achromat

Faintish, perhaps resolvable with 3-7/10 in.; in fine field and rich region, between 3° and 4° np Beta Cygni. Sm., 'a globular cluster in a splendid field.' H., 11-14 mg.

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

Charles Messier
Jan 23, 1779    

Nebula without stars, having little light; M. Messier discovered it on the same day as he found the comet of 1779, January 19. On the 23rd, he determined its position by comparing it with the star 2 Cygni, according to Flamsteed: it is near the Milky Way; and close to it is a star of 10th magnitude. M. Messier reported it on the chart of the comet of 1779.

― Connaissance des Temps, 1781

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