Moon
Stars Identified: Summer Triangle (Vega, Deneb, Altair)
Location: Mira River at Blair & Karen MacDonald's cottage
Date: 2025-08-28
Time: 8:30 PM - 8:48PM ADT
Equipment: Blair's 8" Skywatcher Dobsonian
Date: 2025-08-28
Time: 8:30 PM - 8:48PM ADT
Equipment: Blair's 8" Skywatcher Dobsonian
Eyepiece: 25mm
Magnification: x10
Transparency: Excellent (1)
Seeing: Excellent (1)
Temperature: 20° - 19° C
SQM: not recorded
Magnification: x10
Transparency: Excellent (1)
Seeing: Excellent (1)
Temperature: 20° - 19° C
SQM: not recorded
A few clouds and no wind. A beautiful night riverside.
Mare Crisium
- Proclus, Palus Somni
- The 'eyes' : Picard and Pierce
- mouth: Yerkes
Mare Nectaris
- Theophilus with very deep shadows; Cyrillus was past the terminator
- Fracastorius
Rupes Altai
Very bright, white, jagged
Piccolomini at it terminus
Noted the Summer Triangle (Altair, Deneb, Vega)
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