Observing Log for Mike Durkin 7/30/2023 about 9:00-10:30PM Locust Valley, NY Transparency: 9/10, Seeing 4/5 Equipment: Hutech modified Canon T3i DSLR PHotometry of P Cyg and CH Cyg. THis time I've also included some flat darks, perhaps as an experiment with Pixinsight to see if that changes anything. 7/28/2023 about 9:30-10:30PM Locust Valley, NY Transparency: 4/10, Seeing 4/5 Temperature: 75-85 degrees Equipment: Stellarvue 70mm refractor Only got to observe the moon a little. The dogs were out tonight and kept trying to get my attention. Then after a short while, clouds came in and made things very hard to see unless it was very bright, like the moon. The moon was about 80% illuminated. Features easily seen, Gassendi crater, Aristarchus crater, the highlands around Prinz crater (which did not look like a crater), and Kepler crater. Before I wrapped up, I saw 2 object pass in front of the moon fairly quickly. The each looked like something in the shape of the number "3" but in different orientations. I don't really know what they could have been. Maybe balloons? Other Log Entries <-- 2022 Jan  Feb  Mar   Apr   May  Jun   Jul   Aug   Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec  2024 -->