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

Large at over 15' in diameter, very rich, quite well defined despite its location on the margin of the Milky Way, homogeneous with a fairly dim population, somewhat clumpy in appearance with a few voids

Andrew Cooper
Sep 30, 2005    Gila, New Mexico (map)
90mm F/12 APO Violet Haze

Very Rich!! a thick patch of nebulosity just resolving into fine stars, stars evenly matched in magnitude giving a smooth appearance, fairly round, fades evenly off in all directions, visible in 9x63 binoculars, good binocular object

Andrew Cooper
Dec 27, 2002    Sentinel, AZ (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Large, dim, very rich, hundreds of dim members, resolved well, in a mostly circular area, rich galactic star field, no bright members and even patch of dim members

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

Beautiful large cloud of minute stars; h., 11-18. 'A most superb cluster' 'A mere condensed patch,' as Sm. remarks, 'in a vast region of inexpressible splendour, spreading over many fields; including the whole Galaxy through this and the adjacent constellations.'

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

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