Andrew Cooper
Nov 11, 2023    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

A lovely cluster in rich galactic starfield, large at 15' diameter, bright and obvious, rich, resolved, the 5th magnitude HR 2758 lies 20' west

Andrew Cooper
Mar 1, 2011    Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
46cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Deep Violet @ 60x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

A rich cluster almost lost in a thick galactic starfield, about 10' across, very homogeneous with all stars nearly the same magnitude

Andrew Cooper
Feb 9, 2007    Waimea, HI (map)
76mm f/6 APO

Fairly bright, good sized, partially resolved, a few dozen bright members embedded in a haze.

Andrew Cooper
Mar 30, 2002    Sycamore House, Tucson, AZ (map)
20cm f/10 SCT

Large, not bright, but stands out from the background well, 50 or so members spread in a 'Y' shaped area, no very bright members

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

Beautiful cluster. h., 10 mg. melting into very rich neighborhood, as though the galaxy were approaching us. 64 includes a bright white star p. Sm. notes that the stars are nearly all 10 mg.; 3° f γ.

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

Captain William Henry Smyth
Jan 8, 1837    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A tolerably compressed but extensive cluster, on the boundary between the Unicorn, and the Greater Dog. It was discovered by the indefatigable Miss Herschel, in 1785; and consists of a singular group of very lucid specks, formed of stars nearly all of lOth-magnitude. The most compressed portion occupies a third of the field with power 66; and it is followed by a solitary yellowish star, of the 8th magnitude. It can be fished up, under a moderately magnifying eye-piece, at 7°½ west-north-west of Sirius; where an imaginary line from Aldebaran passed over Bellatrix, will intersect it.

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

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