not as clear (King)

Unfortunately, the rain clouds predicted for Sunday moved in and cut our Saturday evening session short. But still, we had some fun.

The whole gang was on-hand. Nyssa, Duncan, Lex, Ger, Marion, Bill.

We viewed Moon at 55x with the baader 36mm ocular and 77x with the Celestron 26mm. Alexa tried some afocal shots with her Canon DSLR. I suggested the camera bracket to steady the camera.

Saturn did not look as good on this evening. The skies were not as good as Friday even though we were later at it and it was higher. I tried going to 220x with the Tele Vue 9mm eyepiece but it was not a good view. I went back down to 110x. Lex also tried some images of the ringed planet.

Lex and I kicked ourselves for not trying her t-ring adapter in the day, with lots of light...

Spent a bit of time on Mizar and Alcor. Everyone enjoyed seeing Mizar break into separate elements, the A and B stars. I wanted to tag the Winter Albireo but distant clouds twarted us.

It seemed colder. Maybe it was the humidity and wind. We packed it in pretty early.