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Originally Posted by NereidT
Thanks PeterM!
I am particularly interested in your visual experience (images with modern detectors are also very interesting too, of course).
If you didn't know it was there, would you have noticed it, would you say?
Yeah, yeah, I know; conditionals like this are tricky, if not impossible, to answer, but ...
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My visual was some years ago so memory is not so good other than my notes. Even though I was able to view just South of Brisbane I was using a 14.5 inch F5.2 Dob with Galaxy Optics so aperture will certainly help. I just noticed there is a thread under Deep Space on this object and Ron Knight (astroron) gives an account of this object, noting "it looks like an obscure globular" and he uses a large 16inch Dob.
Always worth hunting these and using averted vision on a dark night and with a bit of luck...
PeterM.