Dan's Amateurish Astronomy

A great night to be viewing the heavens: the temperature has dropped off, not a cloud in the sky, not too much of a breeze. Visual magnitude is about a 6, and earth hour was on lol.

Tonight I saw with my 1200mm 8″ dob (with 25 and 10mm eyepieces):

1. Saturn and four of its moons! Titan, Tethys, Dione and Rhea.  :O
   
2. Eta Carinae
   
3. Tarantula nebula
   
4. the Alpha Centauri double star
   
5. tracked a satellite for a bit across the sky with my 25mm ep from southwest to south! Thankfully I have Stellarium and there just happened to be a sat passing over the right spot at the right time – Radio-Sputnik 15!
   

Awesomesauce!

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