But I realized my first views of both would likely be ruined by the awful seeing. And so I did. Messier 38 got the honors. Lessons for the night. This 5.1 inch telescope is no 18 inch dob.
Lets face it.
No telescope is above the laws of physics. So lets put that to rest right now. For example, M46 in my opinion is one of the night sky's most excellent clusters because of the presence of the 11th magnitude planetary nebula NGC2438. But no, it was the right cluster, the finder showed that. I just noticed the little puff ball on the northern edge of the cluster.