A long awaited and way overdue night of fairly steady seeing has arrived! Thankfully I had the scope set up outside all week in anticipation, and thankfully SkippySky was right for once
Here in suburbia I'm nestled in between houses, of course, so overhead targets are best. Antares was an easy split at 200x just then and Saturn looks gorgeous. Cassini division all the way around and a very obvious display of Encke minima. Good banding on the planet, too.
Jupiter is not quite as good as it could be (being fairly low already, and above some roof), but still good enough to elicit oh's and ah's from the family, who have all seen it many times before. Sadly, the GRS transit tonight comes a bit too late for me to see it.
My wife is fixing me a big pot of Glühwein now and I'm about to go on double-star safari, hoping the seeing will hold (SkippySky thinks it will).
Sadly, the transparency doesn't match the seeing, if you're a faint-fuzzy fan you won't have much luck from around my area tonight.