Tuesday, August 21, 2012
A Trio becomes a Quartet
It was another beautiful cool clear night so I went out to check on the trio at 8:30 and, sure enough, the moon had joined it to make a quartet. The moon washed out Spica for awhile but Mars and Saturn were visible unaided and eventually Spica popped into view as well. I decided to stay out and tried my hand at some Sgr Messiers with my trusty 7x50's until about 11:00. Most notable was the big globular in Sgr, M22. M28 wasn't as noticable but it was visible. M8 and M20 added to the view as well. M54 was also visible but just barely as was M69. I tried to see what the limiting magnitude unaided was and was able to see Eta Cyg, a 4th magnitude star in the neck of Cygnus. Some 5th magnitude stars in between Eta and Sadr were also occasionally visible, just winking in and out of visibility. The sky is pretty dark, but my eyes aren't what they used to be!
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