Took advantage of a decent breeze blowing away the day's cloud cover and revealing a beautiful moonless night. Looking at Orion, about a 4 again on the dark skies chart.
Wasn't planning a long session, so straight to showing EllBee Saturn. Beautiful! (The planet is too!)
Orion now had dipped below the big tree, so we missed the nebula tonight.
Back to Carina to find the nebula there - now identified as (NGC 3372).
Checked out the double star that is Alpha and Proxima Centauri in the Southern Cross. (Crux)
Found I can jam the smartphone in its case between the finder scope and the eyepiece mount, and it stays there! Fired up SkyEye on the phone and calibrated on Hadar, Sirius, and A Crux. Practised searching around for a few clusters, but they may have been a bit too faint for the conditions.
Another good night. Off to bed.
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