2025-08-18

• Condition: VG6
• Quality: 20.04 mpsas
• Location: Home, Spearfish: 44.49, -103.87

Heavy smoke tonight but I’ve have to take every chance I get!

9:47PM

• Target: NGC 6910
• Const: Cygnus
• RaDec: 20h23m +40.46
• Type: Open Cluster
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 55x
• Class: II 2 p

Marked this one down as a favorite. The cluster itself was small and had an interesting shape, but it’s proximity to Sadr is what made it stand out. I decided to stay zoomed back to 55x in order to keep Sadr in frame for the sketch, it’s the brightest star to the left. The cluster itself is the small congregation of stars biased a little to the right. There were some very dim stars that were resolving in spite of the smoke overhead.

10:07PM

• Target: NGC 7063
• Const: Cygnus
• RaDec: 21h24m +36.30
• Type: Open Cluster
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 55x
• Class: III 1 p

A much more subtle cluster. Most of the stars seemed to be of a similar magnitude.