Messier objects around the summer triangle

Conditions:
No moon, good seeing, transparency and clarity

Targets Observed:
M71, M39, M29, NGC 6811, nu Dra

Notes:
Sometimes I play at being Charles Messier and try finding the nebulae he saw with the smae instruments; his were not much stronger then my binoculars.

I looked at three objects tonight. Starting with M71 easily found in Sagitta, which is a loose globular cluster, easily spotted in binos and nicely resolved in the scope. It lies just south of the "shaft" of the arrow.

Then into Cygnus where M39 was found easily, although I was fooled by it's large size. There is a very nice hook of stars of decreasing magnitude leading off delta Cyg and curving north to point at NGC 6811. Finally M39, quite near gamma Cyg, the heart of the swan showed its relatively small number of stars.

Had a quick peek at the cat's eye double nu Dra befor eheading in.