A few clouds but the air was still and clear.
Because of the amount of clouds yesterday afternoon I did not feel like pulling out my big scope just to be disappointed by another cloudy evening so I just hung out on the deck with the binoculars from about 9:00 PM to 10:20 PM.
The last several weeks the summer air has been really thick and humid. Last night there were a few clouds but the air was very still and clear.
The moon was bright and I was able to see some good details with the binoculars. Juptier has been the brightest object in the sky the past few weeks (besides the moon) and through the binoculars I was able to pick out three of the Galilean moons. I was actually pretty surprised that I was able to see them with our moon being so bright and close.
I have been looking a Jupiter through the Nexstar 60 scope for the last couple weeks, before I went in I was wishing I had brought out the new Celestron C8 SGT, since it was so clear.
I spent better than an hour scanning the sky – lots of stars and a very clear. I had hoped to see a meteor or 2 from the Perseid shower, but no such luck. It will be later when I get home tonight so I will probably spend some time looking for meteors.
