An easy find with a 10x finderscope, I was surprized by its dimness through the eyepiece & found it a bit hard to resolve at 180x with a 7mm widefield on my 10" dob.
Dropping back to 100x with a 12.5mm possol gave a better image & i can see where the comparrison to a compact open cluster comes from, an interesting object certainly.
Good to be able to get out before moonrise !
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