Hi Mental
Thanks again for the list
I observed 1291 back in October on a rare clear night at that time of year. My notes indicate that I saw it as resembling a globular at low power with a quite bright core and surrounding nebulosity.
Can I make a suggestion for a challenge object. NGC2818 in Pyxis is easy to find at the moment. This is a Planetary Neb apparently superimposed on an Open Cluster. Both bear the NGC 2818 designation, although a couple of sources I read have named the OC NGC 2818A and others list the PN and NGC 2818 and the OC as unnamed! Uranometria gives the dual classification. This is similar to M46 with NGC 2438 in the field. The PN is more interesting as it is a bit larger and elongated in shape and I would be interested to hear comparisons with M46 and if any of the PNs structure is vis in larger scopes.
AAO pic is here
http://www.aao.gov.au/images/captions/aat080.html
Hubble pic is here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NG..._Telescope.jpg
Malcolm