I am a very casual stargazer and my sesions last between 1-2 hours. Very rarely do I observe after midnight (I love sleeping
). My normal procedure is to set up one of my scopes. Observe a few familiar objects; those whose positions I can remember with out an atlas (no Goto here). Then I will scruitinize upto about a half dozen
new objects spending lots of time on each of them, logging all the details. Finally at the end of my sesh I will check out a few showpiece objects.