Well, it was another great night, in fact even better than last night. I was set up by 7 p.m. and got my journal all caught up. I made a binocular sweep at 7:30 and spotted Mercury first! Then I moved just a little bit to the left and WOW!, there was Jupiter and Mercury fitting easily in the same binocular FOV. It was so cool! It took another 10 minutes to pick them up visually, but when I did it was great. I estimate that Mercury was 10 degrees above the horizon and Jupiter 12. Telesopically, Mercury shows a slightly gibbous disc and all four of the Galilean moons were to the east of Jupiter tonight. I watched them until they faded into the lights of Spring Grove and then turned my attention to the Moon. (I hope you imaging types worked your magic tonight, those two planets were thrilling.)
Another great night for Lunar II targets. I nailed craters Bullialdus, Bullialdus A&B, Kies and Kies Pi which is a lunar lava dome. They were all bunched together and it was great fun sketching those objects. Hesodius A was next up, it is a double walled crater near Hesodius and Pitatus. Crater Wolf which sits out in the middle of Mare Nubium finished the Lunar II agenda for the night. It is a badly eroded crater that reminds me of the letter "C".
Saturn finished the night. It's still a little low for really good viewing, but I think besides Titan to the east, I could see Iapetus way off to the west. There possibly could have been two more moons very close to Saturn on Titan's side, but they were averted vision only. Boy, it is wonderful to be back out there again. 4 hours tonight.