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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.
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