Omega Centauri Again

Another question to whet my appetite for seeing Omega Centauri: How does it compare, in the eyepiece, to, say, M22, which I have seen? Are individual stars more easily resolved?

Thank you.

Bill

Hello:
Omega Centauri blows it away. It's not even a close contest. I don't know if the individual stars are easier to resolve in one or the other, but in both it's pretty easy. I don't know how it'll look from where you are, especially if it'll be much closer to the horizon than M22. From here (+19 degrees latitude), both get high enough for a good show. One thing we like to do when we have visitors from the mainland is to show M13 (nice, especially under dark skies), THEN go to Omega Centauri. If they haven't seen it before, they usually have no idea how big it is.

Cheers
Mike Connelley
Who still hasn't seen 47 Tuc in a telescope