2024-09-20

• Condition: VG6
• Location: Home, Spearfish: 44.49, -103.87

08:31PM

• Target: NGC 6811
• Const: Cygnus
• RaDec: 19h37m +46.22
• Type: Open Cluster
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 55x
• Class: III 1 r

Seems to be composed of only dimmer stars but quite rich.

08:47PM

• Target: NGC 6871
• Const: Cygnus
• RaDec: 20h06m +35.47
• Type: Open Cluster
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 55x
• Class: IV 2 m

A few brighter stars upon a field of dimmer ones. There is a set of stars that looks suspiciously like a double, and another that looks like it could be a triple.

10:10PM

• Target: Crater, Proclus
• Long: 46.89
• Lat: 16.08
• Type: Crater (~4 days)
• Target: Palus Somnii
• Long: 44.72
• Lat: 13.68
• Type: Marsh
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 306x, Moon & Skyglow filter

Waited an hour or so for the moon to rise higher and lessen the turbulence. I spent twice as long on this sketch trying to get as many details in as I could.

Palus Somni is the lighter region. Mare Tranquilitatis is the flatland to the west and Mare Crisium is behind the ridge-line and terminator to the east. Proclus is the smaller crater almost dead center in the sketch (it has a tiny crater just north of it.