Where? Blackburn Point
When? 6:30-8:00
We had a truly splendid stargaze last night! The night was clear and despite a few rowdy parkgoers (who knew so many people launched kayaks at eight o clock?) we were able to see a great number of interesting sights. On the top of my list was the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters, Suburu, M45 etc. etc. open star cluster. Pleiades is the second cluster nearest to us behind the Hyades, which we also saw with the naked eye and then with binoculars. We took another look at the Andromeda galaxy, this time with our fancy telescope, who took it upon itself to tell us which direction it was pointing all night long. We saw M11, the Wild Duck Cluster, the open cluster found in Scutum. I was also a big fan of this one. We looked at the waxing crescent moon with our fancy telescope and it was soooo cooool. All sorts of craters and mountains were absolutely enthralling. I could look at the moon all day. Or all night... So anyway, we did the Great Worldwide Star Count and got a limiting magnitude of five for the constellation Cygnus. Very fun stuff.
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