I still had an open item on my agenda of globulars, actually one of the most briliant ones in the northern sky. Visitors of the older pages in my gallery may have run across the poor appearance of Messier 5 in the first attempt. The bad conditions in 2009 were one reason for a giving it another try 17 years later, the opportunities that came along with my newer 8" Ritchey-Cretien were the other.