Sounds like you had a great time last night Dean. Those Herschels will still be there for you to pick off on another night. 🙂
It was nice out at Keller last night, nicer than Friday night, seemed a little darker. Gerarda and I were the only ones last night.
On the way over to Keller we were treated to a great display of crepuscular rays.. really, really nice.
We got there by 9:30 as I wanted to see if we could see the Tiangong space station, but didn't see it. Maybe I read it wrong, but seems like we should have seen it. Supposed to have been about a mag 0.6 and go right by Saturn, but nope. So we waited for the sky to get dark and for the ISS to make an appearance at 10:17. ISS showed up and that's when Gerarda reminded me I had mentioned it looked like it would pass by Polaris. Hmm, ok, missed with Saturn last night. Let's try Polaris and ISS tonight. I put in a wide field eyepiece and waited. Looked like it would go above Polaris, so moved Polaris towards the edge. Sure enough, I was able to see the ISS zip right on through. Going too fast to pick up detail, but quite the large bright object zipping past Polaris. Neat.
I had decided to concentrate on Globs last night, looking for the ones in Ophiuchus and others. Doing Messiers, mainly globs and galaxies, a brief western campaign in Virgo and also the Leo Messiers. Looks like 12 globs, 10 galaxies, 2 nebulae, and an open cluster. M71, M27, M56, M57, M29, M13, M92, M4, M80, M9, M10, M12, M107, M5, M3, M104, M65, M66, M95, M96, M105, M85, M98, M99, M100. The galaxies would pull ahead of the globs as there were 3 other NGC galaxies. NGC3628 to complete the Leo Triplet. M85 had companion NGC 4394 and M105 has NGC 3384.
AGNFA for sure! 🙂