Used 24x and 67x.
- 16 Cygni (Cyg; mag.=5.1, 5.3; sep.=38”) – split at 24x; at 67x, the secondary looks yellowish compared to the primary.
- 61 Cygni (Cyg; mag.=5.3, 5.9; sep.=28”) – two red dwarfs, split at 24x; at 67x, the secondary looks a bit more reddish than the primary.
NGC 6826 or Blinking Planetary (Cyg; mag.=8.8; size=27”x 24”) – not difficult to spot at 24x, easier to see at 67x.
- 57 Aql (Aql; mag.=5.8, 6.5; sep.=36”) – split at 24x; can’t discern any color using 67x.
- 13-day Moon – some interesting features visible one day before the full moon, including:
Schickard – crater was prominent in the 12-day Moon; now it exhibits an unusual light and dark striped shading on the floor.
Inghirami – right across from Schickard on the terminator, showing a side view.
Grimaldi – a large 200km dark crater near the terminator in the center of the Moon.
Riccioli – next to Grimaldi right on the terminator, showing an interesting side view.
Used Orion Plossl 7.5mm (136x) and 6.3 mm (162x) EPs.
- 13-day Moon – revisited the features described above, including a new crater:
Wargentin – just below Schickard, the ringed wall on this crater is very shallow because the floor is higher than the surrounding area, caused by flooding of molten rock sometime after the initial impact.
- Jupiter – there is a dark spot on the southern equatorial belt that is not a shadow transit (according to the Jupiter transit/occultation forecast); three moons close to the planet on the right, one moon on the far left.
- Saturn – shows equatorial banding on the disc and Cassini’s division on the ring.
- Mars – the southern polar ice cap is the main feature on the gibbous disk; did not see the “brown” feature (maria?) I saw yesterday.