Location: Site 15, Big Muise Island, Kejimkujik National Park, NS
Date: 2024-06-06
Time: 12:10 AM ADT
S&T Chart Reference: 56, 58
Instrument: SkyWatcher Evostar 80ED with star diagonal
Eyepieces: Tele Vue 9mm Nagler
Magnification: x67 - x15
Transparency: Good (3)
Seeing: Good (3)
SQM: 21.68
Temperature: 19ยบ C
I was in the general vicinity after looking at M4. I slewed to find M80 above Antares with the 9mm eyepiece. I did not use the 10-30mm eyepiece colocate this as I had done other clusters this evening - and I found it!
It had a dense core and was much better seen with averted vision to obtain details of its structure. There were no especially bright stars in the core that I could see but the nebulous halo suggested stars of this cluster went a distance from the core.
