Jupiter, Neptune, M11 and M26

What a night! We went square dancing in Laurie, had ice cream afterwards, came home and watched Taken (GREAT MOVIE), then went outside to snag Jupiter and Neptune in the same FOV, and both Messiers in Scutum: M11 and M26. What a haul. M26 was easy to find but kind of ho hum. It makes a nice 45 degree right triangle with eps and del sct and is almost as nice in the 9x50 as it is in my 25mm ep. M11 is another matter though. I pushed the 8" up to 120x and M11 was like a box of diamonds on velvet. Dozens of pinpoints twinkling away. Jupiter was well up by 2:00 (about 30 degrees) and I was able to easily see two bands and three moons. Neptune was less than a degree away in the 25mm ep looking like a small blue dot. The night was perfectly clear and cool at 63F. At 85% humidity it was a bit damp though. All in all it was one of those nights that wanted me to stay up all night and soak it up.