Norma is a small constellation to the southwest of Scorpius. Norma has few objects of any kind but one star cluster and one wide binary are suitable for binoculars.
Gamma2 Normae is a yellow giant with a visual magnitude of 4.0, making it the brightest star of the constellation (which has no alpha or beta). It's 125 light years away. Gamma2 forms an optical double with gamma1, which is fainter (5.0) and much farther away, 1500 light years. Gamma is half way between the Scorpion's tail and alpha Centauri, as well as 22º (a little over three fields) due south of Antares. To the northeast of gamma, in the same FOV, is epsilon Normae, a binary for small telescopes or large binoculars: 4.5, 7.5 with a position angle of 325º and a separation of 23".
Kappa Normae is a convenient star from which to find two pleasant clusters, one to the north and the other south of this star. Kappa is one FOV south of gamma2 Normae. If you put kappa toward the top of your glasses, you will see both clusters. To the north is NGC 6067, about a hundred 10th-mag stars tightly grouped, and to the south is NGC 6087, around three dozen brighter stars more widely dispersed.
