A Great Seeing

[Steveinit]

Of clouds... great texture and feathering. The color was a breathtaking "streetlamp orange" from horizon to horizon. Definitely reccomend looking at this phenomenon in your area.

Seriously though..
I saw 3 meteors out of an alleged peak of 400 per hour through breaks in the clouds.
I did take my Orion Short Tube 80mm refractor and managed about 2 minutes of fair seeing on M42 through breaks in the clouds. I was very surprised to make out a white trunk and wispy wings with a pretty cheap wide field refractor (. I would dare to say the image was significantly better than that of a 4" Orion dobs I used to have even with very turbulent, wet, bortle 5 sky.

Still was fun though. Tonight I got to show my sister and brother in law their literal first meteor and nebulas. <3

[bladekeeper]

Sounds good to me!

The Orange Cloud Nebula has been prevalent in my sky.

The wide-field view that the ST80 puts up is great on larger brighter deep sky objects. A fun scope to use.

[SKEtrip]

Does "breathtaking" mean you can't breathe due to an inability to interrupt the flow of colorful epithets?

Well done - you made good on difficult, I'd take it!