two nice observations

I let out Big Blue to cool the evening of the 14th but poor transparency forced me to "cancel" the night -- but not before making two nice observations:

The moon and Saturn were in close proximity, well within the FOV of my 80mm finder.  The moon looked great, with a lot of detail and the earthshine was bright.  Saturn was small, orange-yellow and elongated -- not enough magnification to show too much.  A satellite glided slowly up the side of the view.

While writing the above down in my notebook, a looked up in time to see a meteor travelling from Equuleus to the western half of the box of Pegasus, with a white, lingering trail.  Really nice view.

I was tired from spending the day building the binocular mount, which is nearly finished and which I want to try out this week.