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Well the clouds cleared long enough last night to have a look but, boy, the light pollution seemed sooooo bad and now I know why, the cloudy front was moving thorugh and the extra moisture really reflects it around.
Anyway, The moon was spectacular with earthshine and good, average views of the edge of Mare Crisium and the crater Langrenus, its always hard to get a good look this time of the phase with the moon so low. The phase of Mercury could be detected (about half phase) but it flicked in and out depending on the seeing and poor old Jupiter has been reduced to a smallish white ball compared to the huge colourful ball of a few months ago. No surface features but the moons were all strung out on one side like a string of pearls.
The best views were simply the ones from the old 7x50s but the small amount of detail was worth pulling the scope out for.
Cheers
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