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    Jeff and I (and for some time, a bunch of scouts) hit a few objects too.

    I also went for a few Herschel objects?two clusters and the planetary nebula in Altair. Then I went for 7006 in Delphinus and couldn't find it. I'll have to try for it again.

    Jupiter was nice. Black spots in the northern belts and a nice division in the southern belt making it look darker on the edges and lighter in the middle (horizontal). The moons were (from the most distant first) Callisto, Europa and Io on one side and Ganymede on the other. All of them spread out away from the planet. Nice splay for the scouts to see.

    They also looked at Albireo, M31 and 32, and M13. Later when we were down to three of us, we also looked at M3, M5, M17, M22 M27 and M57. I'm sure I'm forgetting some stuff…

    When the Moon started coming up, we took a peek at that too.

    It was AGNFA 🙂

    Duane