Andrew Cooper
Mar 2, 2011    Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
46cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Deep Violet @ 175x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Large! bright, a 10'x5' halo surrounding a stellar core

Andrew Cooper
Jun 13, 1999    Pinal Peak, AZ (map)
20cm f/10 SCT

Good sized, reasonably bright, obvious core

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

Oval; not bright. H. saw it 9' or 10' long, and near 4' broad, with a very brilliant nucleus. An 8 mg. star p, a minute triplet f. Lick photo spiral, with many knots. Huggins spect. continuous.

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

Charles Messier
Jun 14, 1779    

Nebula discovered by M. Méchain in Canes Venatici. M. Messier searched for it; it is faint, it has nearly the same light as the nebula reported under no. 59 [M59]: it contains no star, & the slightest illumination of the micrometer wires makes it disappear: it is close to a star of 8th magnitude, which precedes the nebula on the hour wire. M. Messier has reported its position on the Chart of the track of the Comet of 1779.

― Connaissance des Temps, 1781

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