Re: Observing tonight?

It wasn't too bad out there, wind stayed down until the end, maybe when Luka got there!  He must have brought it.   🙂
I had been out there for over and hour and was almost thinking I would leave soon, but then Rebecca showed up.
Prior to Rebecca, the first thing I looked for was Comet Lulin.  It was pretty easy to find with the binocs and then looked at it through the scope.   It looks a lot like a galaxy through the scope.   Putting in the 8mm and you could get down and see something of a nucleus.  Venus was still nice a bright.  I think Venus and the Moon were very close to the crescent phase, looking almost identical.  Besides what Rebecca mentioned, also showed her open clusters M41 (Canis Major) and M35 in Gemini, but did not actually show her M38, got somewhat distracted or something and didn't quite get to that one.   🙂
Also, brought up Pleiades, Venus and Double Cluster in the scope for her as well. 
Not sure quite what time it was, but Bill Fisher from Chatfield showed up at perhaps 9:00?  He is interested in Comets and was trying to get a photo of it.  We showed him the comet.  He did set up his camera and we'll have to see if he gets anything or not.  Now that he knows more about where it is, he'll probably look for it again from his place.  He thought he saw it the other night with his binoculars.  Can't remember what all else showed him, seems like Beehive, M42, Saturn for sure.  Oh, also showed him M81 and M82.  Luka showed up sometime between 9:30 and 10.  Rebecca left soon after that.  As she stated, she didn't feel like being cryogenically preserved for science, not yet.   ;D
She did provide hand warmers for Bill, they come in quite 'hand'y.  Bill left a little after 10?  We may see him again, either viewing or at the meetings.  Eagle Bluff would be nice and close for him.  I mentioned the Messier Marathon there for March.
Luka had some other eyepieces he picked up and was checking out.  He showed me M53.  And he found M65 and M66 again.  I then found them, M65 and M66, too.  We both split Algieba.  I left about 10:45 or so, there for about 3 and a half hours.  Luka was still there when I left.  He was going to hunt down the Virgo cluster.
Yes, quite amazing, the 5 of us apparently seeing the same meteor in two different places.  We all thought it was a plane and then it disappeared and we realized that was no plane, but a meteor.  It was in the direction of the airport.  I also saw a meteor earlier in the south, but Rebecca missed it.  Early in the evening, I followed a satellite from the Pleiades, through Orion over to Sirius. 
Reading your post Dean, you mentioned 54 Leonis and I said, hey, Ceres is over there.  Right after that, you then mentioned Ceres.  I was going to take a look for it, but then never did take the time.
Jeff