| Description | Recorded on October 4, 1780: "Nebula seen by M. Méchain in the night of August 29-30, 1780, above the neck of Capricorn. M. Messier looked for it on the 4th and 5th October following: the light is as faint as for the preceding [M71]" <--> With apparent magnitude of only 9.27 and only 6.6 arc-minutes in diameter, this is the dimmest and smallest GC in the catalog. At Dec -12, it's in my southern sky, but rises above the tree line on good nights. I observed this using my EdgeHD, so in comparison to the Seestar, it seems relatively large. |
