William Herschel discovered NGC 6229 = H IV-50 on 12 May 1787 (sweep 735) and recorded "vB, R, about 4' dia. The whole of it is almost equally bright with a faint, resolvable margin." It was misclassified as a planetary nebula (class IV). CH's reduced position is 4'-5' too far north. Giuseppe Bianchi independently found this globular on 11 Jun 1839 and announced the discovery in an AN letter, apparently unaware of WH's prior discovery.

400/500mm - 17.5" bright, fairly small, very bright core, faint mottled halo. Roughly 10 extremely faint mag 15-16 stars are resolved around the edges of the halo at 280x. Forms an equilateral triangle with two mag 8 stars 6' W and 6' SW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb