[Weltevreden SA (Dana)]

In my 33° S latitude skies, Sco-Sagg are directly overhead around midnight to 1:00. I live in the Arizona-like Karoo of S Africa with Namibia-qual seeing, so I regularly use Djorg 2 Sagg, Ton 2 in Sco, & HP1 (ESO-455-11) Oph as seeing-quality test objects. Djorg 2 near the B86 Ink Spot is steady in averted using a 6-inch MakNewt, almost exactly in the middle of a keystone much resembling the torso of Hercules. It stands out in averted in a 7” and is visible direct in an 8”. At integrated 9.9 it's the brightest of the Djorgs and has the core appearance of a Class VI or VII. Ton 2 at 12.2 is unobtanium in a 6, shows hesitantly in my 7" f/10 and a 7" f/15 Maks on the best nights, and is steady in averted 50% of the time in an 8" f/12 Mak. Being reddened 1.25 mag really shows given its visual diameter -vs- luminosity disparity. Haute Province, HP 1, is visible in both 7" and 8" as a furry star which lies as the tip of a Corvus or Draco-head asterism of 11 - 12 mag stars. It looks like a ~12 mag star on a bad hair day, and even then only at 200x and above. It is a highly core-concentrated cluster with 7 mag ~14 stars in a 1.5 arcsec dia ball, falling away to a large but tenuous halo which might not show even in a large dob. All these are fossil bulge GCs with low metallicities and orbital paths exhibiting unusual tidal stripping properties. As these clusters orbit around the bulge, they gain approx as many stars on the fore side of their path from bow wake compression, as are lost from the aft side from tidal stripping. Halo stars easing outward in globulars do not just wander off willy-nilly in any direction, but can escape only through their Lagrange L1 and L4 points—and then only if their orbital path is aimed within a 7° cone in the net-zero tidal zone directly away from the cluster. HP 1 loses the most because it is a core-collapsed cluster (hence the tight, bright core). Even then it loses only 1 or 2 stars every million years. Today’s old bulge globulars were formed slightly before or about the same time as the bulge itself. Life inside one of these during their first few billion years would have resembled life in the middle of Omega Cen today, lots of bright things dotting about and not much else.