No Moon is good

Jupiter is dominating the night sky in sagittarius at magnitude -2.7 with the Galilean satellites Ganymede, Callisto and Europa on the left and Io on the right. The moons are clearly visible in binoculars.
Tonight is a Messier Object night with no Moon to get in the way. I observed M13 in Hercules, M31 in Andromeda, the Sagittarius Star Cloud M23, the open cluster M25 and the Lagoon Nebula, M8 in Sagittarius, the globular cluster M15 in Pegasus and M11, the Wild Duck Cluster, an open cluster in Scutum. Most all were faint except for M8.

I also observed two meteors and they were not part of the Perseids. While looking through the binoculars I picked out 8 satellites, most of them very faint.

Comments

[Rick Smiley]

Hey,

If I remember correctly, you live just down the road from where I live in Brook Valley. Where do you go to stargaze?

I probably tripped over you at Bradford Creek a couple weeks ago (probably fighting over the eyepiece of Bill's scope!).

Rick