When the Sun came close to setting I drove to my old dark site. It is a parking lot next to a small building. The last time I was there it was vacant. There are now new tenants and owners very OK with me setting up my scopes. I forgot to look at Stellarium for some planned targets. So I just went around up and down with my 20x80 binoculars on it's parallelogram mount. Upon finding an object I would enjoy it with my binoculars and then zoom in with my 150mm
M104/Sombrero galaxy showed a bright pin point dot in the center of a black line/dust lane.
Enjoyed Bode's and the Cigar galaxies in the same view with the 20x80 binoculars. Both were bright with some detail.
Observed two globular clusters with the 150mm
Once home I set up my scope up for observations of Jupiter and Saturn at around 3:00am. My first aim was Jupiter. I greedily started out with 300 magnification. I ended up with 50 magnification on both planets. Both planets were very white in color. I never seen these two planets so white before. Now that I think about it the AC in the car was on high for close to two hours. Perhaps the planets were to low. Maybe a reflection from the soon to rise Moon. Still enjoyed the planets in the night sky at 50 magnification. Left click the images.