I got out July 18th, with an old classmate from New York and his family. Just showed them "the Obvious Stuff", but they loved it.
Sat. nite Steve and I got out, looked at the Lunar craters above and below the Aristarchus Plateau, saw the Rumker hills (Montes Rumker, Lunar II target). Steve is making pretty good progress on the Lunar 100.
But one of the more unusual nights I've had in astronomy was last night. I went out to observe Moonrise. A huge band of low clouds hung above my head. I had everything in the van, but just took out my lawn chair and binocs in case anything showed up. I made sure my journal was up to snuff, read a little in Burnham's about Barnard's Star, but as light faded, I could still see about 2 degrees of clear sky on the eastern horizon.
I put my journal away and stared at the horizon. I could see a little hint of brightening with averted vision in a little dip to the east. Sure enough here came the Moon, a yellowish pumkin orange. It took 2 minutes to clear the horizon, went thru a band of clouds and ever so slowly kept on rising into another clear band. The terminator was on the eastern edge of Mare Crisium with Endymion, Cleomedes and Langrenus right there as well. Finally it rose into the solid cloud cover and Tycho was the last, biggest feature to disappear. I watched it from 9:35 to 9:55 p.m. It was beautiful. I didn't see a single star, but no matter, it was still AGNFA!