I got out again tonight for some Lunar II targets. I nailed Craters Cruger and Grimaldi, so I think I only have 7 to go for Lunar II.
Venus and Mars are only 9 days away from the closest part of their conjunction. They are really eye catching! Mars continues to be unimpressive, at least in an 8 inch SCT. What can you say about an object just a hair over 4,000 miles in diameter "only" 63.6 million miles away? Mercury was not visible tonight, low clouds to the west.
It got cloudy here at 11 p.m., but what a night! 54 degrees! Hooray!