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Well the weather turned out better than the forecast and as I didn't get 'wellied'' on cocktails I decided to trust myself in the garden with my 11x80mm. bins. Such fun!.
Managed to see Callisto far out in its orbit around Jupiter, two comets : 'Johnson' not far from Delta Bootes and '41P' low in Lyra, and three Globular star clusters M13, M92 and M5.
It seemed to me that the coma and or tail associated with Comet 'Johnson' was more extensive than that associated with '41P' but the densest part of '41P' around the nucleus appeared brighter.
Shame I didn't get the scope out as originally planned because I think there was an Io transit this evening. Anyway, no moaning, all in all it turned out to be a great night for stargazing !
Hopefully, tomorrow night will be good enough to get the telescope out and look for Saturn low on my horizon in the early hours.
George 'relatively sober' and much cheered by some top-notch binocular viewing from Lowestoft
Managed to see Callisto far out in its orbit around Jupiter, two comets : 'Johnson' not far from Delta Bootes and '41P' low in Lyra, and three Globular star clusters M13, M92 and M5.