Fantastic night last night

[Pig]

I went over to the local Dark site last night and had a pretty good night ? The sky was a little hazy up until around 11pm and I was unable to split both Izar and the double double, so a tad disappointing considering the forecast. However, we waited patiently and the skies cleared up pretty well and we managed to split a couple of decent targets. There are a couple of southern sky scope errors in the list below.

I also managed to see the transit of Europa ....... I didn’t realise it at first though ?I was simply wondering what that black dot was moving across the surface of Jupiter ? Quite an unusual arrangement of the moons with IO not appearing to move a great deal, I guess I caught it approaching and leaving it’s orbital max thus it appeared to be in a similar position prior and post Europas transit

Some of the targets listed below

HD 3165","Double Star in Andromeda","","","","",,,

"Acamar - Theta2 Eridani","Variable Double Star in Eridanus","","","","",,,

"Angetenar - Tau2 Eridani","Double Star in Eridanus","","","","",,,

"Double Double - Epsilon1 Lyrae","Double Star in Lyra","","","","",,,

"Acamar - Theta1 Eridani","Variable Double Star in Eridanus","","","","",,,

"Saturn","Planet in Sagittarius","","","","",,,

"Hercules Cluster - Messier 13","Globular Cluster in Hercules","","","","",,,

"HD 220167","Double Star in Cassiopeia","","","","",,,

"Deneb - Alpha Cygni","Variable Double Star in Cygnus","","","","",,,

"57 Cancri","Double Star in Cancer","","","","",,,

"Rasalgethi - Alpha Herculis","Variable Double Star in Hercules","","","","",,,

"HR 5346","Double Star in Bootes","","","","",,,

"Mebsuta - Epsilon Geminorum","Variable Double Star in Gemini","","","","",,,

"Alhena - Gamma Geminorum","Double Star in Gemini","","","","",,,

"38 Lyncis","Double Star in Lynx","","","","",,,

"Antares - Alpha Scorpii","Variable Double Star in Scorpius","","","","",,,

"Talitha Australis - Kappa Ursae Majoris","Variable Double Star in Ursa Major","","","","",,,

"Alcor - 80 Ursae Majoris","Variable Double Star in Ursa Major","","","","",,,

"Double Cluster - NGC 869","Open Cluster in Perseus","","","","",,,

"Alphard - Alpha Hydrae","Variable Double Star in Hydra","","","","",,,

"e Geminorum","Variable Double Star in Gemini","","","","",,,

"Porrima - Gamma Virginis","Variable Double Star in Virgo","","","","",,,

"HD 17971","Variable Star in Cassiopeia","","","","",,,

"Messier 52","Open Cluster in Cassiopeia","","","","",,,

"Izar - Epsilon Bootis","Double Star in Bootes","","","","",,,

"Jupiter","Planet in Libra","","","","",,

Venus ?

[cotterless45]

Nice one Shaun ! You're keeping that dark site quiet ! Some lovely targets there , Jupiter is just a continuing drama ,

Nick.

[Stu]

Nice list of targets seen Shaun, but an awful lot of commas and quotes you saw too!  

[Pig]

10 hours ago, cotterless45 said:

Nice one Shaun ! You're keeping that dark site quiet ! Some lovely targets there , Jupiter is just a continuing drama ,

Nick.

Cheer Nick,  it keeps the place safe Nick ? your welcome to pop over sometime.

9 hours ago, Stu said:

Nice list of targets seen Shaun, but an awful lot of commas and quotes you saw too!  

Thanks Stu.... I can’t remove them from the Sky Safari downloads ?

[cotterless45]

Yep """",....."""""!?

[Pig]

It’s not. So far from where you are Nick ?

[wookie1965]

fantastic write up some great objects there going to be nicking a few. 

[Pig]

Thank you.... there are a couple of tight doubles amongst them...... ??