alpine valley rille and doubles in cancer

The night of May 3, from 8:45 to 9:15, I observed the moon and I think I picked up the Alpine Valley Rille.  Seeing was quite good and the terminator had just passed the valley; so I ramped up to 885x (5mm Nagler in 2x barlow).  Seeing was choppy at this magnification but with some very clear moments.  I stared and stared and picked up a whitish thread running along the lower (? the part further away from the mountains) part of the valley.  It appeared about 20% of the time.  I feel fairly certain of it as it matches photos I've seen.  57% illuminated waxing gibbous.  I did not see the rille run the whole length -- as it got to the mountains it stopped -- I will try to write in some feature names here later once I review Rukl's atlas.  Seeing was Pickering 7.

Next I went after close doubles in Cancer.  They were all too low to be really nice, but I didn't prepare any list or finder for any other constellation.  I did find everything I was looking for, at 553x:

STF 1177: Yellowish, 1 delta mag, 4" [6.69/7.41, 3.5", 350°]

STF 1186 = 11 Cnc: Orange with very faint B, 3", PA to south. [7.06/10.08, 3.4", 219°]

STF 1197: Very faint pair, 1 delta mag, PA E, ~2". [9.01/9.67, 1.8" 100°]

STF 1188: Wide separation, near equal white. [8.71/9.34, 16.2" 201°]

STF 1187: Yellow and orange, 1 delta mag, 5" [AB 7.19/7.98 3" 20°. Aa,Ab is 0.2"]

STT 186: Close, 1" but easy split, near equal dull white color. [7.71/7.93, 1", 72°]

13 Cnc Bpm = BUP 111: Wide separation, triple? Orange A. [AB, A=K0 spectral, yellow-orange. 6.58/9.32 80.9", 49°. AC is 188".]

STF 1171: Yellow and orange, 4 delta mag! very faint and close B, 0.8" [6.48/9.95, 2.1", 326°]

Just to the north of STF 1171: Orange, with three companions? Marked as double on CDSA but no designation.

STF 1191: Very faint but well split, 3", near equal pair, PA to west. [10.3/10.8, 3.5" 77°]

Ho 524: Very wide, triple? with orange star. [Not seen: AB is 7.70/10.51 4.3". AC 9.78, 65.4"]

HVI 78: very wide, bright white, 3 delta mag.

STF 1196: !! Triple, all near equal magnitude, yellow-white. AB ~0.8", hair split. [AB 5.3/6.25, 1.1". AC 5.85, 6.3". There are 8 stars visible in the system with more spectroscopic pairs.

STF 1201: Pretty wide, 5", 1 delta mag. [8.05/9.51, 6.4" 181°]

HJ 777: Very wide, faint, PA to south. [AB 9.58/11.70, 10.6" 349°. AC 14.02 113" not seen.]

STF 1181: Orange and blue, 3 delta mag, wide separation. [8.28/9.26, 5.4" 141°]

BU 581: Very wide separation, 2-3 delta mag, orange and blue. Orange is not quite round? Can't tell -- it's 0.4". [AB 8.46/8.83, 0.4", 211°. AB,C & AB,D 11th mag, not seen.]

STF 1170: Close near equal pair, 2". [8.74/9.09, 2.4" 106°]

Ho 349: Wide separation, 3 delta mag, faint B. [AB 7.67/12.00, 10.5" 227°. AC 13th mag not seen]

STF 1162: Orange and blue, pretty wide. [8.0/10.17, 9", 327°]

STF 1167: Very faint pair, B with averted vision and seeing. 2 delta mag; near a bright star. [9.79/11.8, 11.5", 229°]

STF 1173: Wide, pretty faint, PA to west. [AB 8.47/9.93, 10.6" 52°. Spectroscopic Aa,Ab]

This was the last faint one for which I prepared a finder, and just as I finished the observation the tracking platformed stopped -- so I wrapped up too.