My 3rd proper session was going well and comfortabley underway. My staying power isnt great at the moment and a few hours under the sky is about the best I can do at the moment.

This was the second time out with my new eyepieces which are better then the packaged units by far. As cheapies (SW LERs) i do wonder exactly what the daddy lenses will be capable of.

Partway through, although I had imaged the moon and marvelled at Saturn, it occurred to me that I was using my goto mount as a tour guide without being able to remember what i had seen. So here is my simple observing log. Its really just for my consumption but hey the blog is here, why not use it?

M44 - My goto lists this under its common name so I knew what iI was looking for, the beehive cluster was pretty much Sukis first light (besides the moon) and through the new sharper lenses wasstunning. Early in the night probably not as stunning as it gets but sexy nonetheless.

Ageibia - Being a noddy (ie not knowledgeable) I had no idea what algebia was. The goto slew the the spot and, seeing no obvious clusters, i homed in on the brightest star. At 32.5x it looked to be a bright star but at 43x i could see it didn't look quite right and almost fractured, i suspected it was binary. At 130x I was able to clearly resolve a stunning binary system that literally took my breath away. This was also my first real noticing of colours in stars with the larger body being noticeably more orange in colour.

I then looked for Albeiro... whatever it is however it was behind my house.

M37 - seemed to be a faint cluster which i had difficulty resolving, one to come back to.

M67 - I resolved a large and faint quite open cluster. Sprinkled with very faint stars

Then my luck turned. M5 was behind a building, I couldn't see M3 for looking and my possible fleeting...is that it glimpse of the Whirlpool Galaxy was abruptly stopped by cloud cover. as the sky had pretty much disappeared and I could no longer feel my nose I called it a night.

I got some shots of the evening moon bog standard by astrophotography standards but I was pleased anyway.

Nights for a few days now so i will be wistfully looking at the skies. I may well be squeezing some obs in before i head off though.