M23, M19, and M62

After several days of thunderstorms and clouds the sky finally cleared this evening and I decided to finish off Sagitarius by snagging M23. I grabbed my 7x50's just after twilight and watched the stars come out in the south off my deck. Scorpius was plainly visible and Sagitarius was beginning to roll into position. I decided to use Nu and Xi Ser as 'pointers' since M23 lies along the line between the two and just about the same distance from Xi as Nu. I wasn't able to see much in binocs but the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud was very obvious as were several other clusters I had visited previously. I grabbed the dob, set my red dot on the position of M23, and it was right smack on target. It was everything previous reports said it would be, definite 'oh' material. I saw 4 or 5 strings of stars, sort of resembling a string of lights on a Christmas tree. I counted at least 68 stars in the FOV of my 25mm ep. After wandering around the vicinity and alternating between binocs and the dob, I decided to finish up with M19 and M62. I'm sure I saw these earlier in the year but had not marked them in my log so I revisited them. Both are dim small globulars. It was getting pretty dewey by this time and I think my RACI was all clouded up so I relied on my red dot. M62 was fairly easy to spot but it took a few tries to get M19 right. I finally snagged it a bit closer to Theta Oph than I thought and decided to quit for the night before everything got soaked good. Visibility was excellent otherwise and I spent several minutes just tracing out some of the dimmer constellations in the area. At one point I was being 'buzzed' by some sort of flying night creature. I never saw what it was but it sure was noisy.