I went out hoping to see the Perseids meteor shower, but after half an hour of watching Cassiopeia and Perseus in light-polluted and moonlit skies and seeing nothing, I decided to try for another Binocular Messier object.  I first looked for M33, but failed to find it in the haze (it was partly cloudy).  But then I found M11, the Wild Duck Cluster.  It is one of a handful of binocular objects with a definite shape to it–one of the better binocular objects out there.  Here is the observation.