Hello astronomy fans! I got out again for four and a half hours last night with my son-in-law Kermit. We looked at a lot of a lot of different objects and I even got four more Herschel 400's. We looked at Venus, Saturn and Mars to begin with. He liked the Venus cresent and really liked Saturn. Mars is becoming more ho-hum every night. Then he wanted to see what the Herschel hunt was all about and I kept him busy with the binocs while I hunted down a Herschel. I recorded NGC's 4631, 4654, 4607 & 4699. The best was 4631 which is a big edge on spiral galaxy, one of the very best of the Herschel 400 and a candidate for "why didn't this make the Messier list?" NGC 4654 is also worth a look. Ony 18 to go.
The other stuff we looked at was Cor Caroli, M57, M13, M4 & Antares, M27 (which Kermit found in the binocs by his lonesome), M52 in Casseopia, M8 the Lagoon Nebula, M20 the Trifid Nebula, M24 the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud, & Beta Cygni in Cygnus.
The Moon rose at 2:20 a.m. and we watched that to finish the night off. We had a great time. AGNFA!