On to the report, most of what you see is directly from my observation notes, maybe some edit's based on spelling, etc.
M 29: August Deep Sky Challenge; Nice little cluster, I am counting ~6 members that are all about the same mag, in lines left and right. Some dimmer potential members along the way too, in between the lines, and around. This is the "Water Cooler" cluster, correct? I think I see why it is called that now. Cooling tower? Lots of stars in the field too. {Cooling Tower, looked up afterwards
}I could not pull out the August Challenge of the Fireworks Galaxy - probably a combination of back yard, and the previously mentioned street light in my eye
ST And: August Carbon Star Hunt Challenge; Took a bit of searching the field - very dim - pretty low on the horizon right now for me. Orangish/Red. Mag estimate about the 9.5 that is listed, maybe a little dimmer.
AQ Sag: August Carbon Star Hunt Challenge; Nice red color, a bright star that stands out from its field-mates. It has a couple of companion stars to the north and northeast that are about the same magnitude as it. They are all in a line.
S Scu: August Carbon Star Hunt Challenge; Orange/yellow in a field of numerous stars. The field itself is very pretty, especially with the 18mm. The star itself - is okay. Nothing too special about it.
M 15: September Deep Sky Challenge; I will confess - one of my favorite M objects, because it was one of the first I 'found'. A nice small, tight glob with a bright core. More resolvable with the 11mm. It has a nice bright blue star trailing to the east, and an orange one to the southeast. Definitely more popping out with averted vision and a longer look.
Jupiter: Wow - Jupiter is BRIGHT tonight. Io and Europa are right of the western limb, with Callisto much further west. Ganymede is the lone Galilean to the East. Banding is very visible tonight. Going to try the 82A filter I picked up, as well as the moon/sky glow filter. I am able to make out more banding with the filters stacked. Is Io moving behind? Possibly Europa as well? Yes, both are moving behind - Io occultation begins in about 20 minutes. [Moved on to Saturn, but came back for the Io Occultation: Watching the moon slowly move behind the planet. Really wild to see it almost merging with the planet, and then POOF - it is gone.] {My results from the filters - I stacked the 82A and the "Moon & SkyGlow Filter" my results - there was more banding visible and mentioned, but the normally white bands had definite streaks of dark in them, I assume that these are the "festoons' }
Saturn: Beautiful as always. TItan is hanging off the NorthWest side tonight. Many other moons around, that I do not know the name of. Spent more time than is logged here before I started taking notes.
HD 198269: September Carbon Star Hunt; Dim, hard to make out the color of the star. Has a companion trailing to the east.
RX Peg: September Carbon Star Hunt; A nice red in the field of stars. Forms a triangle with two others.
The other Carbon for the month, Z Pisc was still too far down for me to make out, as it was below the tree line. I am sure in the future I will get a chance to check it out.
If you've made it this far, thanks for reading!
