[Weltevreden SA (Dana)]

I'm pretty sure I can confirm having spotted Djorg 2 (aka Pal 9) over the past three nights of good skies. It's near the OC NGC 6520 and adjacent B86 Ink Spot collapsing molecular cloud, and in the rich field of the Teapot 'steam plume'. Djorg 2 is confusingly listed as visual 9.9 and 6' dia on some lists and mag 12.6 plus a highly improbable 12' dia on others. It shows up immediately in my 200mm scope as an extended fuzzball of about 4' dia with no obvious central concentration. A close inspection reveals a nearby small arrow-like group of four mag 12.5 stars which mimic the M73 asterism in Cap, plus a nice sprinkle of <mag 13 field stars. It is not identified on the attached chart, but its visual field corresponds to the small group of mag 12 stars directly below the letters 'STN40' (a double star) on the chart, and a small fuzzy ball right of the Ink Spot on the WikiSky clip. A literature search unearths only Djorgovski's original 1983 discover paper and a follow-up in 1987 by Buonanno et al. Can any IIS member give it a shot and confirm? =Dana in SA