Messier like globular clusters
Thanks Daniel.
The faintest globular cluster in Messier's catalogue is magnitude 9.2.
The attached list is from the SAC ver 8 database and contains 81 globulars brighter than magnitude 9.3 including 29 Messier objects.
If Messier and Mechain had searched both the northern and southern sky "properly" they would have seen most of these globulars.
Class I globulars are hard to resolve, class XII are easy to resolve.
BRSTR is the brightest star.
16 GC are south of dec -45, none are north of dec +45.
Globulars in bold print are the brightest 40.
The attached file contains M like globulars and galaxies.
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