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Steve and I got out. I stayed until 2 a.m., then it got hazy. I probably got one of my last looks at Jupiter until it comes up in the east later this year, then Stup and 4 of his friends showed up. We showed them Mars, Saturn, M13 and Alberio. The skies were alternately, clear, hazy, clear, hazy, clear then bad hazy when I left.
We looked at M4 in Scorpius through Stup's scope (nice!) then looked at and did a comparison of Delta and Beta Scorp (Delta has been the brighter of the two for about 20 years or more now), looked at M103 in Casseopia, Mu Cephei and Delta Cephei, talked about "dark nebula" (the dark patches of the sky that E. E. Barnard recorded photographically early in the 20th century. Steve hadn't heard of these and I showed him a couple of examples in Burnham's Celestial Handbook.
Steve took off about 1:30, I was going to stay until moonrise, but then it really got bad and dewey, so I packed up and left.
Still, AGNFA! Nice to be out there. It had been a while.