Oh Paddy, what a fabulous report! I've enjoyed it so much that I've read it three times under 24 hours already! Your descriptions were out of this world - I just realised I made a funny!
I love that you observe and report on star clusters as you must know by now, they are amongst my favourite objects.
The only thing I have seen on your list seems to be the GC in Musca- NGC
4833. I saw it as quite a large glob but at 200x I just couldn't resolve it on that night. All I could see was a hazy ball. From your description (and of course much larger scope
) you make mention of a "circular haze" so I was wondering if this was quite fuzzy for you as well? I know I just simply will have to re-visit this with keener eyes, perhaps higher magnification even
though I think the mag. I used is pushing it anyway.
That list of targets is an interesting one to me; I haven't got most of those catalogues, some I hadn't even heard of. And if you got those out of the Night Sky Observers Guide Book (which I've ordered and should get any day now
), I may be one step closer.
Thank you Paddy for sharing your observations.
