This showcase objects is easily noticable in binoculars as a large hazy spot and any telescope will resolve it into swarm of evenly bright stars. Cookbook 245 LDC was used on Celestron Ultima 8 SCT with f3.0 focal reducer to acquire five 60 sec. Those were processed with AIP4WIN software and combined into mosaic using Corel PhotoPaint 8.
North is to the right.