Deep Sky Viewing

[Stu]

As Kens said, quite likely a glob, plenty around there.

[Tzitzis]

Viewing Deep space objects DSO's have two necessities over planetary observing and that is a large aperture telescope 8" + (you've got that covered) secondly is a dark sky, I'm not talking about "middle of the night " dark but in the context of light pollution.

Even a seemingly dark countryside sky can still suffer from the light domes of nearby towns or cities.

Take a look at this,

http://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=10&lat=6991895.50378&lon=-334586.32737&layers=0BTFFFTT

Even if you don't live in the UK it gives you an idea as to how far the light pollution from towns and cities spread in areas

Holy badgers! That's why I can't find M13... Lol.I'm in red zone.... xDDDD

But my village is in green. That's good to know... Summeeeeer

[Ant]

That is very interesting, the light pollution between 2010 and 2014 has improved for me

I am well into the green now

Ant