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This is also a very nice object for small scopes but often gets overlooked in favour of its more illustrious neightbour, 47 Tucana. In small scopes, it exhibits a marked central condensation and starts to look granular in my Orion 80ST and 102mm f/5 refractor at higher powers although there is no resolution (well maybe some outer stars resolved in the 102mm). I get good resolution even at lower powers in my C6 from dark sky sites although the glob does not fully resolved. It is pretty much resolved down to the core in Andrew's (astro_south's) 12.5" truss dob. I have sketched this object from Ron's dark sky site at Cambroon and will upload it when I get the chance.
Darren
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