Location: Tomball, TX
Cloud cover: 5%-10% – Stratus – up to 80% later
Transparency: avg.
Seeing: avg (3/5)
Darkness: city sky glow, no moon
Limiting Magnitude: 4 (unaided), 9-10 (scope)
Wind: mild
Humidity: 65%-70%
Temperature: mid-70’s
Start Time: 9:30 pm CDT
End Time: 11:00 pm CDT
Instrument: Bushnell 3″ Newtonian
Venus: bright half disc resembling 1st quarter moon.
Saturn: crisp outline and ring separation; Titan trailing ~3 ring diameters behind planet.
Graffias (beta1 Sco): split double beta2 Sco with 7.9mm eyepiece. Both stars nice blue.
Jupiter: clear disc, no cloud bands visible. Moons Europa, Io, Ganymede, and Callisto trailing eastward, followed by HD 152516 (HIP 82734) at ~2X separation of Jupiter-Callisto.
Increasing cloud cover made further observing difficult.
