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Dean Johnson
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    Good news and bad news. The good part is that the seeing was terrific last night, but that the transparency was pretty poor. The sky was murky, especially at the horizons.

    I got NGC 6540 in Sagittarius, a globular that can be seen in the same FOV as open cluster 6520. 6540 is very faint. Then the poor transparency and the big boxelder on the fenceline got in the way and I couldn't get any more Herschel's till 10 p.m., so I looked at "the obvious stuff" near the zenith. The Veil Nebula, M57 and M27 I checked out using my Ultra High Contrast and Narrowband filters, and then the Andromeda Galaxy got a long look.

    The Moon rose at 10:05 p.m., but struggled mightily to get out of the murk. When it got up high enough, I captured Rima Hadley for my Lunar II quest.

    It was a pretty good night for astronomy.