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NGC5986 (Globular Cluster, in Lupus)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in, web: http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=sriram_gubbi)
Instrument: 6-inch other Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Fri Jan 20 05:20:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1479
A bright globular, often neglected by everyone. It is a very good globular. If any of you have'nt seen it, then give it a shoot. Its nice!
M10 (Globular Cluster, in Ophiuchus)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in, web: http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=sriram_gubbi)
Instrument: 6-inch other Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Fri Jan 20 05:20:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1475
Appeared a bit loose and slightly oval, but bright. I think I have seen this with my 2 inch about an year ago.
NGC5286 (Globular Cluster, in Centaurus)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in, web: http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=sriram_gubbi)
Instrument: 6-inch other Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Wed Dec 28 04:45:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1454
I did'nt want to aim for it but just gave it a try and I did see it. It was visible using averted vision, situated very close to a bright star.
M53 (Globular Cluster, in Coma Berenices)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in, web: http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=sriram_gubbi)
Instrument: 6-inch other Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Wed Dec 28 03:55:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1458
A good globular cluster in a region filled with galaxies. It appeared bigger than the normal globulars and somewhat whitish in colour.
M30 (Globular Cluster, in Capricornus)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in, web: http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=sriram_gubbi)
Instrument: 6-inch other Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Sat Nov 19 19:46:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1407
A fairly bright globular cluster gave a mottled view through my telescope. It is located very close to a star.
NGC6441 (Globular Cluster, in Scorpius)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Fri Sep 23 15:15:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1339
A beautiful, bright, easy-to-locate globular in Scorpius. It is just about a mere 5 minutes from the 3.21 mag red star in Scorpius between Shaula and eta Sagittarii. Absolutely easy to find and wonderful at mag 7.4. Shows a brightness gradient from center to periferri. It is quite large. It is strange that this is not a Messier object.
M72 (Globular Cluster, in Aquarius)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Wed Sep 21 16:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1334
Practically impossible globular, like its precursor in the Messier catalog. The globular is so faint that I hardly saw anything. Careful use of averted vision showed a large hazy patch just above a star. Simply too faint, or maybe it was the moon that had just risen by then. Best view was a 83x on my scope.Its very close neighbour is the successor in the Messier catalog, M73.
M30 (Globular Cluster, in Capricornus)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Wed Sep 21 15:45:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1333
Very prominent and comparatively bright globular cluster. Fairly large. Central brightness and surrounding haze are clear. Beautiful, but like any other globular. I expected a very faint, practically invisible globular cluster, but was astonished to see this beautiful sight.
M75 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: severe Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Fri Sep 16 17:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1323
Terrible sky as a result of 14th day waxing moon. A thin haze was also present. This was a real difficult one on such a day, but nevertheless, since SGR is rarely visible from our region (due to Monsoon) I ventured out (successfully) for M75. With a star chart to mag 10 or so that I copied down from SkyChart v2.7 + Tycho 2 Star Catalog, it was a difficult but interesting manuever from omega SGR (Flamsteed 58) to M75 (about 5 arc degrees movement). A very faint, very small, bright (relatively for today's expectations), out-of-focus star-like greenish object viewed best at 100x or so on a 8" f/8. I'm quite sure I've found it as the object I've seen is definitely not a star. It looks as though two faint stars closely neighbour this globular.
M2 (Globular Cluster, in Aquarius)
Observer: Andrew Cooper (e-mail: acooper@pobox.com, web: http://www.siowl.com/)
Instrument: 46-cm Dobsonian reflector Location: TIMPA, near Tucson, Arizona, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Aug 28 06:15:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1292
Very rich, bright, one of the best globulars! fully resolved and dense at the core, a number of brighter members scattered along the edges frame the cluster well
NGC6441 (Globular Cluster, in Scorpius)
Observer: Andrew Cooper (e-mail: acooper@pobox.com, web: http://www.siowl.com/)
Instrument: 46-cm Dobsonian reflector Location: TIMPA, near Tucson, Arizona, Unites States
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Aug 28 03:32:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1289
Bright, unresolved ball of fuzz four minutes east of a 3.2 mag. star, a bright orange, the cluster is dense and just starts to resolve with averted vision, bright Milky Way starfield fills the field
M13 (Hercules Cluster) (Globular Cluster, in Hercules)
Observer: Vedran Vrhovac (e-mail: vedran_vrhovac@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Velika Gorica, Croatia
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Mon Jul 25 22:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1268
I just bought my 8" Dob. I decided to test dob on my favorite target, M13. At 38x cluster was a bright round fuzzy, but at 80x i show countless star. At 200x only core wasn't resovled. M13 gave me superb views.
M28 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 13-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Mon Jul 25 02:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1267
This evening, My friends Mike Dzubaty, his son Mike, Steve Borer and I did some deep sky observing with Mike's 13" dob. One of the objects we examined, was M28 globular cluster. M28 is a small tightly packed globular cluster that seems like it is embedded in the milky way. It could not compare with the other two globular clusters we observed M13 & M22. We also observed four great open clusters, M6, M7, M21 and M24. M7 is much larger than M6 but both open clusters were fine viewing objects. M24 simply jumps out at you and fills your whole field of view at low power. Finally, we observed M8 which is a nebula with an open cluster along side it. The nebula can also be seen with binoculars. All in all a fine night of observing.
M22 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in, web: http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=sriram_gubbi)
Instrument: 6-inch other Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: poor
Time: Mon Jul 11 21:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1262
This time, though there was a bad seeing, I could resolve the individual stars with averted vision.
M22 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in, web: http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=sriram_gubbi)
Instrument: 6-inch other Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: poor
Time: Sun Jul 3 22:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1252
Appeared a bit bigger than other globulars. But smaller than Omega Cen. A slight improvement in appearence with mottled edges through 6 inch. Maybe it will be resolved in a dark site.
M80 (Globular Cluster, in Scorpius)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in, web: http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=sriram_gubbi)
Instrument: 6-inch other Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: poor
Time: Sun Jul 3 22:20:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1254
Yet another ball of cotton north east of scorpious. There's a star of the same brightness just near the cluster. It looked a bit greener than other globulars to my eyes.
M71 (Globular Cluster, in Sagitta)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Fri Jun 10 15:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1320
This beautiful but faint globular was resolved almost completely thru averted vision (or atleast thats how I saw it). The sky was hazy. The globular was very faint, quite large and quite sparse. It looked like a nebula. Averted an periferral vision were required to get the best view. It is easily found by moving from Delta SGE to Zeta SGE and moving perpendicularly to intersect the line joining Delta SGE to the tip of the arrow etc.
M62 (Globular Cluster, in Ophiuchus)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in, web: http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=sriram_gubbi)
Instrument: 6-inch other Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Tue Jun 7 23:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1246
It is quite easy to find. Its a bit east to Tau scorpii. A first I thought it was M4 which I had found the same night. But later when I found this cluster was a bit far of Antares, I came to know that it was 'it'!
NGC6712 (Globular Cluster, in Scutum)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Tue Jun 7 21:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1315
When I was looking for M26, I chanced to look at a conspicuous but faint globular cluster like object in the constellation of Scutum. When I went back to software and verified, I found out that I had accidentally found NGC6712, a 8.1 mag globular in Scutum. A pair of conspicuous stars neighbours the globular.
M107 (Globular Cluster, in Ophiuchus)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Tue Jun 7 21:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1314
By Good Fortune, this night was excellent. This is a difficult globular (comparitively) and probably this was the best night to see it. It was very faint, quite small, and almost invisible. Eben on such a clear night, it required averted and periferral vision to see. Location is easy, but it is difficult to see. On a 8" f/8, 80x worked very well.
NGC6522 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Andrew Cooper (e-mail: acooper@pobox.com, web: http://www.siowl.com/)
Instrument: 46-cm Dobsonian reflector Location: Vekol Road, Arizona, Unites States
Light pollution: none Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Jun 5 06:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1278
Small, rich, condensed, 3' diameter, just resolved at 175x, very nice globular in a very rich Milky Way starfield, NGC6528 in the field just 15' east
NGC6540 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Andrew Cooper (e-mail: acooper@pobox.com, web: http://www.siowl.com/)
Instrument: 46-cm Dobsonian reflector Location: Vekol Road, Arizona, Unites States
Light pollution: none Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Jun 5 05:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1276
Small, dim, unresolved patch in a very! thick Milky Way starfield, roughly oval in shape about 2' in size
NGC6388 (Globular Cluster, in Scorpius)
Observer: Andrew Cooper (e-mail: acooper@pobox.com, web: http://www.siowl.com/)
Instrument: 46-cm Dobsonian reflector Location: Vekol Road, Arizona, Unites States
Light pollution: none Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Jun 5 05:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1275
Round, bright, unresolved, very symmetrical, appears like a globular out of focus, core quite concentrated
M13 (Hercules Cluster) (Globular Cluster, in Hercules, Est. RaDec 16.7 36.5)
Observer: Vedran (e-mail: vedran_vrhovac@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 76-mm other Location: Velika Gorica, Croatia
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Fri May 27 22:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1245
When I first observed M13 it seemed incredibly dim to me. Now its a standard DS object on my observing list.Through my 76mm scope it looks like round bright nebula with granulated edge at 38x. I estimated size to 5 arc minutes.Higher magnification (56x and 117x) only dim this wonderful object.
M15 (Globular Cluster, in Pegasus)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Tue May 17 22:35:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1312
Bright, easily found and viewed. It is similar to M3 and M2, but is almost unresolvable even at high power of 170x on a 8" f/8.The field shows two stars on two opposite sides of the cluster
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