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Found from γ Scuti (took a while to find Scutum, since it was buried in the strip of the milky way). A neat collection of stars that seems to have a glow "behind" it.
I could see the glow in the finder-scope. The shape does resemble a swan and it appears upside down (from my perspective). AV really helps with the shape.
More of a view of tightly packed stars than any detection of a "glow". Kind of hard to determine that it "is" a cluster of stars.
Lots going on here! I see nebulous blue "glow". I see a star cluster in it's midst, and it seems to be guarded on all sides by pairs of brighter stars. AV helps with the definition of the shape and glow.
So tiny, I almost missed it. Without AV, it looks like a single star with a larger than normal "airy disc". With AV, the "airy disc" becomes pockmarked with speckles of bright light. Small, but cool.
Found by RA'ing from M54. Bigger than M54, but still dim. AV doesn't reveal much of the shape, but does reveal more detail within the glow.
