16″ at 228x: NGC 1894 appears bright, round, 40″ in diameter. A mag 13.5 star is resolved at the northwest edge, and a couple of mag 15+ stars are resolved at the edge on the north side. BRHT 8b, lying 1.3′ WSW, appears faint, much like a somewhat oversized and smudgy star.

16″ at 228x: Lying against the bar’s bright background, this ancient globular cluster is relatively bright, ~50″ in diameter, and with an oddly irregular outline, a bit jagged. It brightens towards the centre. No stars are resolved. A mag 12.5 star lies just off its southwest edge. Two pretty stars form an attractive triangle with the globular cluster – mag 11.4 HD 269300 lying 2′ S, and mag 12.2 HD 269305 lying 1.7′ SE.

16″ at 228x: Gorgeous! This young globular cluster appears bright, round, ~1′ diameter, with a dazzling core. At least half a dozen small stars are resolved in its halo. And lying just south of this gloriously bright young globular cluster, its binary companion, BRHT 9b, appears as a very faint, and very diffuse looking ~30″ diameter glow… it looks like NGC 1903 has cast the kind of faint, diffuse shadow our dazzling southern hemisphere winter Milky Way casts when I hold my hand over my star chart. The young globular cluster is made more gorgeous by the fact it appears paired with ancient globular cluster NGC 1916, that lies a mere 8′ SE.

16″ at 228x: SL 358 appears as a faint, diffuse glow, ~18″ in diameter, with no stars resolved.

16″ at 228x: SL 362 appears bright, irregular, 20″ in diameter, with one resolved ~mag 14 star on the south side.

16″ at 228x: H60b 2 appears as a relatively bright, round, smooth and even glow, ~20″ in diameter, with no stars resolved. It lies just off the western shores of the fascinating N120 complex and SNR.

16″ at 228x: HS 213 appears as a faint, quasi-stellar droplet of starlight.

16″ at 228x: NGC 1913 is a lovely cluster, appearing as a 1.5′ x 1.0′ NNW-SSE lozenge-shaped glow with five stars resolved against the glow, three of which are mag 13-14 stars that form a pretty little triangle on the south side. They are all encased in a beautifully soft glow of unresolved stars. BRHT 10b lies off the western side, and it looks like a very much smaller, and very much fainter, version of NGC 1913 as it is also a NNW-SSE slash of unresolved stars, ~15-20″ in size.

RA 05 18 28.8   Dec -69 37 00   Mag –    Size 0.7′

16″ at 228x: HS 219 appears as a faint, very hazy, narrow glow, ~15″ elongated NE-SW

16″ at 228x: This ancient globular cluster is a showstopper – both in appearance and location for it not only forms a beautiful pair with the handsome young globular cluster NGC 1903 which lies a mere 8′ NW, but it also lies just off the southern shores of the spectacular N119 complex. NGC 1916 appears as a bright, round, smooth glow, ~45″ in diameter with a small but gloriously bright core. No stars are resolved.

16″ at 228x: NGC 1921 appears as a very small and faint nebulous glow, ~12″ in diameter, with the cluster BRHT 49b just off the west edge, appearing like nothing more than a slightly fuzzy mag 13.5 star. N121 is an enormous 8.0′ x 3.0′ H II region with NGC 1921 sitting towards the centre, but there was no discernible response to the UHC filter.

16″ at 228x: SL 385 and 387 appear identical; both fairly faint, soft, round glows, ~20″ diameter, and separated by just 45″ in an E-W orientation. They are lovely, looking like a pair of approaching headlights on a dark, foggy night!

16″ at 228x: SL 393 lies just west of the northern end of a crooked 3′ N-S chain of five mag 12.5-14 stars that runs south to NGC 1922. The cluster appears as a small, faint, round glow around a mag 13.5 star.

16″ at 228x: NGC 1922 appears as a very small but bright little knot of stars, ~15″ in diameter, with crisp edges; no stars resolved.  A 3′ chain of four mag 12.5-14 stars extends to the north and the cluster SL 393 lies just west of the northern end of the chain. An unusual surprise lies just 1.1′ SSE of NGC 1922 – a mag 15.0 planetary nebula, N122!

16″ at 228x + UHC filter: Fortuitously, this tiny mag 15.0 planetary nebula lies just 1.1′ SSE of NGC 1922 for without it to guide one’s eye, the tiny speck of light would be lost amongst the stars and shimmering haze of the bar. Averted vision, blinking with the UHC filter, and not a little time helped to identify this faint, miniscule treasure. It appears as nothing more than a mag 15.0+ star, although the filter reveals that very slight gloss rather than sparkle that differentiates it from the surrounding faint stars.

16″ at 228x: This cluster appears as a very small and very faint glow just seen to the east of the mag 13 star that lies on its western side.

16″ at 228x: HS 241 appears as a stellar drop of faint light, lying ~1′ NW of a pretty triangle of three mag 14+ stars.

16″ at 228x: NGC 1926 lies just 3.5′ SW of the ancient globular cluster NGC 1928 and in the eyepiece they look like twins, with NGC 1926 just a little larger! The two also form a nice triangle with NGC 1922 which lies 4.2′ WNW of NGC 1926. The cluster appears as a moderately bright and hazy, irregularly round glow, ~45″ in diameter. No stars are resolved. Its richly star-filled background is also enhanced by it lying between a pretty pair of mag 11.5 stars, 1′ S and 1.5′ N. All in all, a lovely sky picture!

16″ at 228x: This ancient globular cluster lies on the periphery of the beautiful rich field of the OB association, LH 46 which itself lies in an incredibly rich section of the bar. To its northeast lies a nice trapezium (trapezoid in North American English) of four 10 mag stars which showcase the ancient glob! NGC 1926, lying just 3.5′ SW looks remarkably similar to this ancient globular cluster; they could be twins! The ancient chap appears as a moderately bright, hazy, irregularly round glow, ~35″ in diameter. No stars are resolved.

16″ at 228x: LH 44 appears as a round hazy congregation of unresolved stars, 3.5′ in diameter, with a few mag 14.5 and fainter stars scattered randomly around it. It barely stands out against the starry background. The cluster SL 408A appears on the western side, with averted vision, as a slightly more condensed patch of unresolved stars enveloped within the overall haze, and the small nebula, BSDL 1350, lying on the east side, appears with the UHC filter, as a very small and faint bead of light.

16″ at 228x :This lovely association is very obvious with its very distinctive trapezium of four mag 10-11 stars (in American English it’s a trapezoid). It’s 3.5′ in diameter, and a number of mag 14 and fainter stars litter the scene against the very faint haze of unresolved stars. Ancient globular cluster NGC 1928 lies on the western periphery of the LH 46.

16″ at 228x + UHC filter: Without a filter, N127A appears as a pretty bright knot of nebulosity, ~35″ in diameter, with no real edges, it simply fades away. The cluster HS 248 is buried in the nebulosity but no stars are resolved. The nebulosity has a good response to the UHC filter, appearing as an even glow with quite crisp edges.

16″ at 228x: SL 419 appears as a faint, quasi-stellar droplet of pale light.

16″ at 228x: SL 423 appears as a very faint, quasi-stellar drop of light.