first steps report.

[algol]

Had the nephew down last night and was showing him the ropes, we started with saturn but it wasn't properly dark, still saw two or three moons that got a wow.

As it dimmed we swung over to albireo and he was flabbergasted, to quote "such a tiny dot of light can be so amazing" as he saw the coloured double.

Finished off with some fuzzy hunting and hit m57 Smokey doughnut lol. M27 saw a slight narrowing of the middle. And finally m13 a fuzzy blob with sign of mottling and a few stray members on the edge.

Finished off with a binocular tour of constellations and astetisms.

Pretty good night, never really got full dark, and called it quits at half twelve.

Ps pretty sure I caught a bit of milky way near Cygnus up towards zenith

[bobmoss]

It's great seeing that sort of reaction - I think we sometimes forget how magical the first views of the universe can be!

[cotterless45]

Brilliant , share the views !

Nick.

[Paul73]

While the peace and solitude of this hobby is nice.

There is nothing to beat sharing it with someone who gets a real kick out of it!

I've got to check out Albireo. I've only ever used it for navigation.

Paul

[cotterless45]

If you put your scope top cover on and remove the small cap , you should get cracking sharp views of stars, hurrah !

Nick.

[algol]

I'll try the endcap trick Nick. And Paul you definitely have to check out albireo it's one of my targets each night while waiting for the sky to darken

Steve.

[Astro Imp]

Great to get others involved and have to agree Albireo is a stunner.