I joined the Mullers for some observing last night at their “GEM’n I Dob-servatory”. What a nice night of stargazing and good conversation! I really enjoy observing with Glenn and Gail. Glenn always has a line up of pretty interesting objects to look at. Since the moon was up and very bright we spent some time looking mainly at brighter objects. We started out by observing Venus and Saturn in the same eyepiece of their 6in Dob. Afterwards we turned the scope south to Jupiter. It was absolutely stunning in their Pentax EP. I have never seen so many bands on this planet (surprising since it was so windy). The moon was nice but because it was almost full it lacked in interesting features but we still enjoyed observing many of the craters. The night ended with some observing of really pretty doubles in or near Lyra… oh of course we took a peek at the Ring nebula. All this while there was a nice fireworks display across the street.

KerryLH