Andrew Cooper
Nov 2, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Small at about 4' diameter, round, bright and obvious, very dense core, partially resolved

Andrew Cooper
Jun 27, 2020    Waikoloa Quarry, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" GyPSy @ 127x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Small at 5', bright, dense core, fully resolved, a pretty little globular cluster in a rich galactic starfield

Andrew Cooper
Aug 3, 2019    Kaʻohe, Mauna Kea, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" GyPSy @ 127x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6.5 Moon: 14%

A small cluster, bright, concentrated, not resolved, notably smaller and dimmer than the nearby NGC6723 which Messier and Méchain missed

Andrew Cooper
Apr 3, 2011    Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
46cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Deep Violet @ 262x
Seeing: 8 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Small, bright, about 5' across, nicely concentrated core, fully resolved

Andrew Cooper
Jun 11, 2010    Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
46cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Deep Violet @ 262x
Seeing: 8 Transparency: 7.5 Moon: 0%

Small, bright, fully resolved, sharp core, a nice globular in rich starfield

Andrew Cooper
Apr 18, 2010    Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
46cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Deep Violet @ 175x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Bright, small, 4' across, well concentrated core, fully resolved

Andrew Cooper
Jun 17, 1998    Yavapai Point, Grand Canyon National Park, AZ (map)
20cm f/10 SCT

Small globular, very few stars resolved, or are they foreground? very compact, looked at it with the 28" [Dennis Young, Sedona] across the parking lot, very nice

Charles Messier
Aug 31, 1780    

Nebula without star, near the preceding [M69], & on the same parallel: near it is a star of the ninth magnitude & four small telescopic stars, almost on the same straight line, very close to one another, & are situated above the nebula, as seen in a reversing telescope; the nebula was determined from the same star Epsilon Sagittarii.

― Connaissance des Temps, 1781

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