Date: October 29, 2013
Time: 7:00 - 8:45 PM
Place: Casey Key Fish House Parking Lot
Sky Conditions: mostly clear, a few clouds overhead and along the horizon. Moon not present.
Instruments used: binoculars and telescope (8 in scope with 9mm and 26mm focal length lenses)
Planets: Venus (viewed in the telescope at a waxing gibbous phase with 9mm focal length lens and 26mm focal length lens)
Bright Stars Noted: Vega, Deneb, Altair, (summer triangle overhead), Antares, Polaris, Fomalhaut
Constellations Noted: Lyra, Cygnus, Aquila, Hercules, Sagittarius, Picis Austrinus, Capricornus, Cassiopeia (learned what "worm" asterism meant)
Binary Stars: epsilon Lyrae (brighter as yellow, other as indigo with 26mm focal length) , Polaris (Polaris B located at 11 o'clock with 26mm focal length lens)
Deep Sky Objects: M57 (the ring nebula in Lyra: a faint ovular smoke ring) , M27 (in Vulpecula), M11 (in Scutum), M13 (globular cluster in Hercules, fuzzy round patch). All viewed with 26mm focal length lens
Other: learned what "worm asterism" means, saw one shooting star (though there were many to be seen), saw the ISS disappear into Earth's shadow, noted that Cygnus at Casey Key Fish House gave us a 4-5 magnitude area
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