Well, I went down to Eagle Bluff and I even had some company…Capt. Kirk! He followed me down to EB "just for a half an hour to an hour" and ended up staying for two hours! First time I've had somebody show up that late at night wearing a suit and tie…
We saw, the Jupiter/Venus conjunction, the Perseus Double Cluster, the Orion Nebula, the Andromeda Galaxy, M44 the Beehive Cluster, M51 and NGC 5195, M97 the Owl Nebula and M108 (spiral galaxy in Ursa Major, both seen in the same FOV with my 50 mm Vixen wide angle), a binocular look at Coma Berenices, NGC 4565, the "Needle" Galaxy, the Virgo group of galaxies (couldn't find 'the Face'), Mars, Saturn, unsuccessful search for NGC 6543 the "Cat's Eye" in Draco, M35 in Gemini along with NGC 2158.
That was it for Kirk and I left an hour after that. I tried for some Herschel 400 objects, but by then had been up for 19 hours and was getting tired. When I get tired, it is hard to find things that don't belong on the Obvious Stuff list.
Tonight I made it out again for an hour and a half, I got some globular clusters for that observing list and took a good look at the Jupiter/Venus conjunction which is starting to break up. Then high thin clouds moved in and it was AMF time. Nice to be out, though, It was t-shirt weather for the first half hour. Strange for March.