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I had to choose 47 Tuc. I love the shape and punch it gives even in 10x50s, but the best ever I've seen it was in Dave Moorhouse's 16" Retina Wrecker binos. It was like being suspended in space above a great spherical metropolis of stars. Really quite incredible, and not a sight I'll forget.
Tempting to also pic Eta Carina of course. It's complex, beautiful, bold yet with many subtleties. The first time I ever saw the homunculus in (very rare) perfect seeing is another memory I won't forget. I was running the 16" Ruth Crisp classical Cassegrain at Carter Observatory for the public and I stopped talking mid-stream I was so gobsmacked! Details in the polar lobes were visible, as were the equatorial jets, just like the Hubble image! Couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Cheers,
Cam
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