Johann Abraham Ihle (June 14, 1627 - c. 1699) was a German amateur astronomer who discovered the first known globular cluster, M22, on August 26, 1665 while observing Saturn in Sagittarius. The German people (Deutsche are an Ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common German culture, descent and speaking the German language as Amateur astronomy, a subset of Astronomy, is a Hobby whose participants enjoy studying and observing celestial objects A globular cluster is a spherical collection of Stars that orbits a galactic core as a Satellite. Messier 22 (also known as M22 or NGC 6656) is an elliptical Globular cluster in the Constellation Sagittarius near the Galactic