M15

Conditions:
Partly cloudy, high cloud, transparency 4, seeing 4

Targets Observed:
M15

Notes
Decided to concentrate on one object at a viewing for now. Was inspired by this article on sketching objects.

And so, as Pegasus is up after midnight, I chose M15 as my target. This is a very bright globular cluster, shining at magnitude 6.4. It was easy to find off epsilon Peg, a bright orange star in an otherwise dim star field. M15 is the densest globular cluster out there.

To my eye the cluster appeared a little extended to the west, and other observations have seen this too. That gave it kind of a oval look. After a half hour or so I thought I could make out some of the structure of the cluster, with a faint triangular pattern of stars pointing to the southeast.

No auroras tonight.