Hi Patrick,
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Originally Posted by gaseous
You've crammed a lot into 2 hours! How do you log your findings without ruining your dark adapted eyes?
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I make notes on a thumb-sized digital voice recorder as I am actually observing (ie looking in the ep) and transcribe later into DeepSky software where my log is kept in electronic form.
There was quite a bit more than that in two and a half hours. I ordinarily observe about 8-9 "fields" per hour on average -- some might contain 4-5 objects, others just one. A normal observing evening for me, over about three hours total would include somewhere between 30 and 40 objects. This particular night happened to be 32 objects observed and noted in 2 1/2 hours.
After 11.40pm, I spent about 20 minutes looking in on a few old favourites and a comet until just on midnight. The moon was just peeping over the horizon when I shut the shed doors after packing up (usually takes 10 minutes).
Best,
L.