Location: St. Croix Observatory (SCO)
Date: 2025-09-24
Time: 9:40PM ADT
S&T Chart Reference: 67, 69
Instrument: 10" Meade SCT
Eyepiece: 25mm (SvBony 30-10mm Zoom eyepiece FMC)
Transparency: Very Good (4)
Seeing: Excellent (5)
SQM: not recorded
Temperature: not recorded
WOW! What a beauty! This large globular cluster filled my FOV, giving it the appearance of an open cluster. Numerous individual stars could be seen (and sketched). It appeared grainy between them and I could make out what seemed to be dark lanes (not sketched) through the cluster.
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Constellation: Sagittarius Type: Globular Cluster Magnitude: 6.4 Distance: 17.6 kly Size: 9.1' |