Lunar Phase: Waxing Gibbous (96.0%)
Moonset: 3:36 AM Eastern Moonrise: 6:37 PM Eastern
Sunrise: 5:20 AM Eastern Sunset: 8:48 PM Eastern
| Location: Friends’ home in Cornwall ON Date: 2017-07-06 Time: 10:38 PM - 10:50 PM EDT Temperature: 17° C Equipment: Visual + Binoculars 10x30 IS Magnification: x10 Transparency: very good (5) Seeing: very good (5) |
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Clear cloudless night with no wind. Saturn could be seen below the Moon.
Craters:
Clavius (shadowed but could see craters inside/beside it)
Eastern half of Grimaldi. Its eastern edge was well lit with crater floor in darkness. Maybe Hevelius above it (?)
Also identified Kepler, Schikard, Tycho
Sinus:
Aestuum, Medii, Rorus (next to Frigoris)