On 7 june i had a great night . Great seeing and transparency. Saw lot of stuff but one great surprise. Ngc 6027 is a small and very concentrated open cluster on Norma. And just to the north of it stands Harvard 10. Both together become one of bigest showpieces of the southern sky. If a little further north will be one of the most famous targets for small scopes on the sky.
It seems that Ngc6067 is on several lists. Besides it being Caldwell 89 it is on the Astronomical League southern list so I made a point of taking a peek at it back in March of this year on a trip down to South Australia.
Here is what I was able to jot down at the time and it seems to be one of those clusters without a wide range in magnitudes which can be nice in it's own way as these can seem like a fine blanket of stars. I did not catch Harvard 10 at the time. Below is from 3/17/2010 in a 12" Bintel Dob from Arkaroola Australia.
NGC 6067 Cr 298 Mel 140 con: Nor lst: DM,SAL,C89 tape: 1:21:00
Open 5.6 12.0' 100 10.0 I 3 r LYN 16 13 12.0 -54 11 00
2:54am 9mmNag 170x 12' size. Maybe 200 or so stars. A few Tier1 just brighter than most of the similar mag stars. Non-concentrated. Mostly similar mag stars.
Ngc 6027 and harvard 10
