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What a great haul! You certainly filled up your quota for this orbit of the galaxy.
Those globs sound great. I'm sure there's alot of unexpected beauties in that area. I agree with you on M17, as far as detail and surface brightness in nebula go, it gives the "big 3" (m42 / ngc 3372 / ngc 2070) a real run for its money.
I caught NGC 6818 in near perfect seeing a few weeks ago. My impressions from the morning of 23/5/2010 include a horse-shoe shaped annularity with the open end pointing to the N, and at 762x a tiny knot could be seen "broken" off the northwestern end of the horse shoe. A very faint outer halo was seen slightly buldging out from the E and W sides of the nebula. Scope was 12" dob.
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