As you may have seen, my Binocular Universe column from Astronomy magazine has been resurrected here on CN. With that move, I am hoping to make it a bit of a community effort in that I would like to include observations and sketches of object by CN members. While I welcome general. contributions, I will also be posting specific requests here for targets to be discussed in upcoming installments.

Right now, I am gathering material for the August column and am interested in your observations/sketches of the Scutum Star Cloud, including M11, M26, and the several Barnard dark nebulae (B111, B119, B318, et al) superimposed there.

Feel free to post your comments here or send them to me at phil@philharrington.net

Thanks in advance!