If you should have seen more from my gallery of globular clusters, you may have run across the humble appearance of M 56. Similarly, M 71 is also located in a very crowded region of our summer milky way. It is not overly distant - with 13000 light years around the distance of our galactic center -, but very close to the busiest areas of our home galaxy. In addition, the degree of condensation is very low, Shapley-Sawyer X-XII, depending on the reference.

By the way, in the initial paper by Shapley and Sawyer (1927) the cluster wasn't even listed; in a follow-up article by Sawyer (1947) she listed the cluster, but did not dare to assign a class. Therefore it should not be a big surprise that in the past there was quite some discussion about whether this cluster was even a globular or rather just a very dense open cluster...

Collimation was a bit suboptimal and the quality of the picture, though decent, made way for optical adjustments in the following full moon nights.