M18 (NGC 6613) Sgr open cluster
Difficulty level 2

Date of observation: 2000/05/04 03:14
Observing site: Makinoto
Transparency/seeing/sky darkness: 2/4/4
Instruments: 32cm Dobsonian with XL21 at 70x
Width of field: 0.9 degrees
This is an inconspicuous open cluster south of M17. There are a number of bright stars with fainter stars sprinkled them. Although it is quite bright, it does not contain many stars and looks embedded in the stars of the Milky Way.