Camelopardalis

I 'discovered' the observing guides at http://www.weasner.com/etx/ref_guides recently and decided to check out the sights in Camelopardalis with my ETX-70 tonight. It was just below Cas in the northeast and clearly visible from my backyard but no stars were visible due to all the light pollution. Autostar found everything I wanted to check out though and I gave it a good workout entering RA,Dec coordinates to GOTO. I spent most of my time sketching the area around Struve 385 (a double) and galactic cluster NGC1502. The coathanger-like asterism near 1502 was interesting but there weren't a whole lot of stars visible in 1502. I found out later that this asterism is part of Kembel's Cascade, a pretty stream of stars cascading into 1502. I found 385 ok but wasn't able to split it. The ETX with a 26mm EP just isn't up to splitting even easy doubles. It's pretty much limited to about mag 8 with these skies and my eyes.