Andrew Cooper
Jun 3, 2022    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 6.5 Moon: 0%

Big! Bright! obvious in the 40mm finder, a coarse assemblage of 8th to 11th magnitude stars about 20' in diameter, the main body of brighter stars in a swath extending 20' northeast to southwest and about 10' wide, rich, fully resolved, a wonderful view that fills the field

Andrew Cooper
Jun 18, 2006    TIMPA, Avra Valley, AZ (map)
90mm f/12 APO Refractor Violet Haze

Bright, large, a distinct cluster in a heavy galactic starfield, very distinct in binoculars but coarse and less distinct in the 90mm at low power, about a hundred 8-10 magnitude stars in a 1° area, the main body is strung along a NE-SW axis, visible to the naked eye as a knot of stars in the body of the Milky Way

Andrew Cooper
May 28, 2006    Gila, NM (map)
12x36 Canon IS Binoculars

Quite bright, rich open cluster easily visible and distinct in the thick summer Milky Way, a dozen or so bright stars define the cluster with a haze of dimmer members, IC4756 visible 3° east

Andrew Cooper
May 25, 2001    Dragoon Mtn. Ranch, Cochise Co., AZ (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Large! bright! Many bright stars spread evenly across the area. Almost all blue stars

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

Very fine, with star 7 mg. in large field; eye object. Baxendell found var T. among outliers; compare to M80 in Scorpio. Between it and θ Ser, nearer the former, is a beautiful large cloud of stars [IC4756], chiefly 8 and 9 mg., a nearer part apparently of the Galaxy; visible to the naked eye, and requiring a large field.

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

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