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M56 (Globular Cluster, in Lyra)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com, web: http://home.mindspring.com/~jcaggiano/)
Instrument: 6-inch equatorial reflector Location: Glenside, Pa, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Jun 14 03:11:30 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1541
Another night of turbulent atmosphere that turned Jupiter into mush made me decide to try and find something new to look at. The Cygnus region of the Galxy was rising in the East and was a pretty good way up above the horizon. I started with the Ring Nebula but the glow from that horizon pretty much drowned it out. working my way further east I spotted the globular cluster M56. At 30x it was very small (one of the smallest globulars I have seen) and was not too well resolved. It is rather distant at 33,ooo light years and has a visiual brightness of 8.3 magnitude, but with the conditions I was facing, light pollution, high level wispy clouds ect...it was probably just withing my scopes range. It is also rather small at 8.8 arcminutes diameter. I had mixed feelings about it. DIsappointment at it's lack lusterness yet proud that I found it in such lousy conditions. I will view again later on this year when it is higher in the sky.
M56 (Globular Cluster, in Lyra, Est. RaDec 19h17m +30)
Observer: Thomas Godfrey (e-mail: choccy_bourbon@hotmail.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars Location: Norwich, Norfolk, England
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Sep 20 23:20:00 2001 UT Obs. no.: 570
With 10x50 binoculars from a suburban location, M56 wasn't easy. Once found it appears as a small fuzzy spot mid-way between Alberio and gamma Lyrae
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