It's an irregular dwarf much like the Magellanic clouds but much smaller. Visual spotting takes very dark skies. Barnard himself found it in 1884 using a 5 inch refractor. Like most irregulars, this is hot bed of young blue stars, therefore is a good watch for close supernova. 7 globular cluster located 30' NNE of Epsilon Coronae Australis.
Individual stars start at mag.
13, and these are resolvable as chains that trend from center to edge in larger telescopes. It can look grainy, but not resolved in small to mid-sized scopes. Stars at mag. 14 make this a good one for 10' and above telescopes. Stars at mag.