Last night David Coset and I looked at Venus, Saturn, and M57, when my old buddy Bob Selness showed up unexpectably. Bob and I were rookie tree planters in the winter of 1983/1984, Both of us have over a million trees in the ground by hand. Bob came on out because he knew the sky was clear and that there was a good probability of me being out there! 😮
After M57, we looked at Alberio, (Beta Cygnus), M5, M3, M8, M20 and M22. David told me the correct pronunciation of the French astronomer Le Gentil. (LAY-JENTI). French is very confusing, but a beautiful language. "Tre joli" is 'beautiful' in French. It sounds like one word when it is prounounced. 8)
Moonrise was at 11:55 p.m. I showed the guys the two big craters near the terminus, Aristoteles and Eudoxus and then packed up and headed for home at 1 a.m.
AGNFA!