We obtained one of the clearest views of \omega Centauri from a fort of the

erstwhile Marāṭha admiral Angre on an exceptionally clear night — it was truly one
of those sights which cause a romaharṣaṇa in the beholder. We have had several
fruitful nights of GC sighting using various instruments from a 20×75 binoculars to
a 12 inch telescope. Indeed, GCs remain objects of great fascination to everyone
from the casual observer to the astronomers at the edge of their science. They have
ramifications for everything from the age of the universe, the origin of galaxies,
the detection of dark matter to gas physics.

A GC is unmistakable for anyone who has seen one – a dense globular conglomeration
of stars with up to a several million stars packed in a close oblate spheroid of
few parsecs (1 parsec \approx 3.26 light years). We had the desire of illustrating
some basic features of them using the data from 147 GCs of the Milky Way. This
number is not far from the total number of GCs in our Galaxy. The brightest in our
set is of course \omega Centauri with integrated visual magnitude, m_V=3.68 and the
faintest is UKS 1 with m_V=17.29, which is beyond any telescope we have personally
operated. \omega Centauri is also the brightest in absolute visual magnitude M_V=-
10.24, whereas the absolutely faintest GC in our set is AM 4 with M_V=-1.55.