Its my first time ...

[Jake Bullit]

Great report,I am usually at work reading the forum,so don`t usually get the time to get in deep,but I think a good report deserves feedback.

Thanks for taking the time.

[Catanonia]

Nice one mate, I am in Cheshire as well.

The direction you were looking and time, the bright object you tracked going fast was more than likely the International Space Station. Sometimes can be brighter than Vega and moves very fast.

[johnh]

Great work Warren you are slowly mapping out the sky, bins are good for big clusters but smaller stuff like M56/7 you need at least an 80mm scope to show. You need to use diopter on bin right eyepiece to get both eyepieces crisp as eyes often focus differently.

If you find Albireo in Cygnus bins should split this star into a double with a yellow brighter and blue contrasting dimmer star, this is the most attractive double star in the sky.

Coathanger cluster is easy in Bins and look around Cygnus for shear brightness of Milkyway with thousands of barely resolvable stars glowing at once. M31 the Andromeda galaxy is low in East and ENE the Swordhandle Double Cluster.

Where the Swordhandle is this represents the radiant point for the Perseid meteor shower (Aug 12/13th) which is the direction from where all Perseids shoot away from that is how you tell it is a Perseid. These are bright meteors and any meteor not traced back to that point (5 degrees below and 5 degrees to right of bottom of 'W' shape of Cassiopeia in East) is probably a sporadic.

East and South are the best areas as what is low in the North will move to the ENE in time and what is in the West has come from the South. Nights are starting to draw in now so we should get more time to observe.

Your writing style is very good so keep it up, we will enjoy hearing about your unfolding journey of discovery.

JohnH.