Was nearly put off for the night with the clouds rolling in, but thought what the hec, may as well setup and leave it to cool for awhile and see what happens.
There is lot of cloud around tonight but there are also some reasonable gaps in it. One plus was the moon was covered until around 10:30.
And, I was rewarded for taking a chance. I got a great view of Jupiter and her four prominent moons tonight, followed by my first glance ever of m42, followed by m41 and the first test of my moon filter.
It is amazing how much more you take in second time around. First outing I was happy just to see Jupiter and forgot all about the moons
. This time I saw them in all their glory. And to cap it off with two Messier objects was fantastic. Also saw a fantastic mountain in one of the smaller moon craters, will have to look that up.
Now I believe Saturn is up around 2:30, may have to set the alarm
Edit: So I stayed up for a chance at Saturn and while it was fully clouded 15 minutes before it should have been visible, the clouds disappeared and Saturn appeared above our tree line. Awesome night viewing for only my second outing. Do you think the 10 year old was interested in getting up at 3am though... will have to work on that
Thanks for the encouragement all, definitely worth the time spent this evening. Many more to come.