Object: Nonex-open cluster NGC 7071 Constell: CYG RA: 21h 26.5m Decl: +47° 57' Epoch: 2000 Mag: 9.5m (own) Size: 2.5' (own) Type: III 2 p (own) Observer: Jere Kahanpää Obs. place: Hartola, Finland Date/Time: 20./21.8.1994, 23.25 Telescope: N 205/1000 Magn: 133x Filter: Field: 22' NE Lim.mag: 5.0m Background sky: 4 Seeing: 3 Weather: Warm. Some fog on the lake. Brightness: 4 Alt: Description: 40x: a faint glow and a few stars. 133x: Faint but still quite easy. A small group of stars, very elliptical. Grightest stars about mag. 12. Only one degree from Messier 39. Original obs. (J. Herschel 1833): "A very poor and small cluster of an oblong figure. It is followed by a loosely scattered mass of stars"