I looked up some of the group with an alternate name and it appears the listed mag might be a mix between the blue mag and visual depending on the object
Hi Alvin,
I envy your dark skies but will try and see how it goes on a couple of the brighter and well placed group for me at 40 degrees north. Are the brightest member magnitudes listed the...
These are some of my notes through a variety of apertures. The sites and observing conditions also varied significantly.
48": at 375x; highly resolved cluster with chains of brighter stars,...
With my old 6" Newtonian telescope from southern France in 2008 I saw this globular cluster in my 50 mm finder. At 64x a large, not quite round glow with one side sticking out a bit. At 146x a few...
Hi, here's my observation from 4/4/2011: Ngc 5466 globular cluster in Bootes : mag: 9.2 ; size:11' ; fairly large but dim ; using averted vision and lots of patience, more stars come into view. I...
With a 10" at 45x: "Very faint, yet broad and almost square in shape."
With a 20" at 192 & 272x: "Almost like an open cluster, possible a Class XII. No concentration towards the center. A scattering...
Amazing, indeed, that this one hasn't made it to OotW before..!
My most recent observation for this globular was less that 2 months ago, the early morning of 2 April in France (session / blog). I...
Whereas I've seen NGC 4388 way many times because of it being part of the Markarian Chain nonet (the 9 galaxies typically seen in a 31mm Nagler FOV on most 18 inchers), I never have observed it...