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Last night I broke out the 11 X 70 LW Oberwerk binoculars. I went out to the back yard to see what I could observe. I’m in the middle of town. The bortle rating runs about 4 to 4.5 from my house. Light pollution presents an issue.

The skies started out hazy to the south from either low clouds or smoke from wild fires burning to the East. Visibility started out poor in the early evening an improved as the night went on. I tried spotting M3 to check out the seeing conditions. Seeing was poor. I decided to start my session to the North where skies appeared clearer. Later in the evening, as the Southern skies cleared, I moved South to Nebula region near the core of the Milky Way.

Cassiopeia to Cepheus
M 52 (Mag = 6.9, size = 16’, SB = 12.66) Faint fuzzy spherical shape open cluster. Averted vision was required to see it. Could not detect individual stars.
NGC 7160 (Mag = 6.1, size = 7’, SB = 10.06) Tiny bright elongated open cluster. Individual stars could be detected.
Garnet Star (Absolute Mag = -7.1) Bright star with a slight reddish or orange hue. Diffraction through the binocular lenses effected the color.
NGC 7789 (Mag = 6.7, size = 30’, SB = 13.82) Very faint large disk shape. This object required averted vision to see. It appeared as a large glowing circular shape. No distinct stars could be detected.

Sagittarius to Scutum
M8-NGC 6530 (Mag = 6.0, Size = 1d 30’ X 40’, SB= 14.63) (Mag = 4.6, size = 14’, SB = 10.07) Very bright star cluster with a distinct glow from the nebula. No detail visible in the nebula.
M 21 (Mag = 5.9, Size = 16’, SB = 11.66) Bright open star cluster.
M 22 (Mag = 5.10, size = 32’, SB =12.36) Dim, yet distinct, globular cluster. It appeared as a circular glowing object.
M 25 (Mag = 4.6, size = 26’, SB =11.41) Dim open cluster. No distinct visible stars. It appeared as a fuzzy glow similar to M 22.
M 24 Mag = 4.6, size = 1d 30’ X 1d, SB = 13.67) Very large bright elongated open cluster. Individual stars were easily seen.
M 17 (Mag = 6.0, size = 40’ X 30’, SB =13.44) Very faint fuzzy glow from the nebula. It was difficult to see without averted vision.
M 16 (Mag =6.0, size = 2d X 25’, SB =14.46) Very faint fuzzy glow similar to M17 only slightly larger.
M 11 (Mag =6.3, size 14’, SB = 11.77) Faint, yet distinct, fuzzy open cluster. The appearance was similar to M 25. No individual stars could be seen. It could clearly be seen without averted vision.

Ophiuchus
M10 (Mag = 6.4, size = 20’, SB = 12.64) Extremely faint globular cluster. It was barely visible using averted vision.

By this time a haze began to roll in, so I ended the session.
Glenn

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Very nice Glenn and some nice targets, good that you could get out to observe
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Great report Glenn and congratulations on winning the TSS Visual Report of the Day award for 7/4/2021. Sounds like it was a great evening with the binos.
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Nice evening/report Glenn, inspiring, I hope to get out tonight with my 9x63 :)
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Nice report and congratulations on the VROD!
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Very nice binocular report Glenn and congrats on the VROD.
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Hi Glenn. A very nice observing report with the Oberwerk binoculars. You grabbed some very nice objects in your session, and you did a nice job with your detailed descriptions. Thanks for sharing this report on here Glenn, and congratulations on winning the TSS VROD Award today.
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Thank you very much Folks. I appreciate the kind words.
Glenn

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Nice night Glenn, thanks for sharing, and congrats on the VROD.
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Great session with some very fine binos! Congrats on the VROD!!

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Nice report. Well worth the VROD. Congrats!
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Nice bino session Glenn! Bortle 4 at home in the middle of a town that's not bad at all. How Milky Way looks from your location?

Congrats on VROD!
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