A trip around the swan (Thanks RocDoc)

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I finally got outside. I used RocDoc’s bino report as a guide.
I’m certain of NGC 7209 just left of Deneb, and the Y cluster NGC 6910, by Sadr.
I’m guessing on NGC 6918, 7209, and 7243. I wrote down the coordinates for all, earlier in the day. I used the settings circles on my SVP, which I find to be quite accurate, nearby if not in the eyepiece.

Last night my daughter caught the astronomy bug!

Up until now, she didn’t care. I talked her in to a peak at Jupiter, then Saturn, before her bedtime. Come morning she was upset she hadn’t seen Mars.
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Excellent work Jeff.
Great to see the daughter take an interest.
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Beautiful !!
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If you can find a copy of the Webb Society Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook, Volume 3 Open and Globular Clusters, there's a boatload of sketches to compare against. Useful for ID-ing clusters.
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