Following last night's astronimical marathon of 7 hours observing I was a little tired but the
11pm and I was out - the moon was starting to lower a bit and would soon disappear behind rooftop. The transparency was much better but far from brilliant.
7 Iris - Asteriod in Gemini - apparently mag 7.6 it was in slightly tricky place to locate but with the 60mm finder I honed in on a closeby group of mag 9 - 11 stars and pin-pointed the location exactly. However, I can't say that I managed to see this. The location of the asteriod I'd expect to be accurate in Sky Safari but if the asterioid was indeed mag 7.6 I wasn't sure why I couldn't see it as I'd expect the surface brightness not to be much of a factor. I used the Delos 17.3 and 10mm however after about 30 mins I gave up on this. I'll have to give it another go perhaps when the moon is not such a factor.
M38 - Open cluster in Auriga - With the 10mm Delos showing an impressive amount of stars with the brighter ones making a cross like structure - can see why it's called the Starfish cluster!
I had a quick scan around Leo. The moon-light was too strong tonight to even see the M65 and M66. As it was already now 1:45am I decided to wrap up the session.