Ann wrote:... Globular clusters also aren't my thing. The only globular I've ever looked at is M13 in Hercules. My eyes glazed over with boredom at the apparently uniform off-white, ever so slightly sickly greenish, color of the cluster. ...
There ya go with the colour thing again.
I like globular clusters because they're small enough to see the stars, or many of them anyway, and that helps give me a sense of their vastness and at the same time their compactness, their crowdedness, and yes, sometimes their colourfulness. I also love galaxies, but they're kind of blatant, too flagrantly enjoying themselves. Clusters are more sedate and not so immediately interesting, so they can draw you in for a closer look.
I happen to have M13 as my desktop image at the moment. But my favourite is Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) of which I have several images. In particular I like the
closeup (a Hubble image from last summer) of the dense central region, speckled with red, orange, yellow and blue stars (you'd hate it.) If I remember the numbers correctly, a 20 ly sphere around Sol encompasses only a couple of dozen stars, but the same sphere in the middle of Omega Centauri would enclose something like 50,000 stars. That sort of thing just rings my chimes.
Oddly, I did not vote for M13 this time around, but only because Mars is my favourite planet in this neck of the woods, and I just love those spunky rovers.
Rob
PS
We need a heart icon in the smilies selection, so I can say "I [heart] Globular Clusters."