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5 favourite Globulars:
Well Omega Centauri and 47 Tuc pick themselves. These are the Celestial equivalents of beautiful sunsets over a calm body of water. A glimpse of either of these reinvigorates my astronomical soul.
NGC 6441 is small faint globular next to G Scorpii. It gives me a sense of the vastness of our galaxy. Here in a bright star, aprox 100 light years away, shining some 100 times more brightly than the globular, which itself contains tens of thousands of stars.
Then over to Sagittarius for NGC 6558 & 6559. These two globulars are in the same field of view, which is rather unusual. I have shown these to countless people and most seem impressed. If I show them a ‘solo’ globular of similar brightness, they are often far less enthusiastic. Some other close, faint globulars can also be found near the Lagoon Nebula.
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