After lunch I checked the NASA solar website and noticed there were some nice prominences out, so I grabbed my PST and had a satisfying look at one particularly large one, shaped like a fountain with a very focused point and spreading out in a fan, the ejecta raining down on either side.
At dusk I saw a fairly close (I guess around three degrees) conjunction of Jupiter and Venus through a gap in the trees. Venus was quite bright. I was able to show Clara.
During the night I viewed many double stars. Seeing was only fair, about 6/10, so I used the 8" mask frequently. Transparency also fair, 2.5/5. Seems we'll never have a very clear night...
BU 1034 AB, 8" 333x: A star is orange and bright, the mask is giving a good clean image at moments, with some disturbance (seeing 6/10). B star is faint but a nice hard point outside A's first diffraction, ~2", noticed it right away even though it is on the edge of direct vision, but do not need averted to see it. Dependent on seeing. Tried at full 20" aperture but A was too messy, and did not clean up well enough with apodizing mask. Low in the sky and in fact lost it behind a tree a few minutes after making the observation"
20h 56m 54.02s -09° 41' 51.1" P.A. 165 sep 2.1 mag 5.70,11.40 Sp gK5 dist. 167.5 pc (546.38 l.y.)
HU 392 AB: 20" 1067x: Split with seeing, usually an elongated smear. Noticeable mag difference. Suspected at even at 8" 333x, and ramped up from there, but needed the power to get it
22h 38m 57.89s +18° 49' 57.4" P.A. 354 sep 0.7 mag 10.15,9.98 Sp K0
ES 265 AB: 20" 533x: Easy pair half delta mag, wide
22h 43m 59.40s +33° 37' 48.4" P.A. 5 sep 8.9 mag 10.20,10.70
STF 2945 AB: 20" 533x: Bright white, wide, near equal
22h 49m 41.25s +31° 18' 39.1" P.A. 300 sep 4.2 mag 9.06,9.11 Sp F0 dist. 115.47 pc (376.66 l.y.)
J 3182 AB, 20" 533x, Easy pair, wide, one delta mag
22h 50m 37.75s +32° 55' 39.4" P.A. 159 sep 4.1 mag 9.30,9.70
MLB 586 AB, 20" 533x: Faint wide pair one delta mag. [not physical]
22h 51m 03.53s +30° 01' 32.8" P.A. 8 sep 6.7 mag 10.50,11.50
HJ 1819 AB & DOO 91: 20" 533x: A is bright white and B is much fainter and wide. B also has a pair, one detla mag to itself, closely separated, slightly more than ninty degrees from the AB PA.
22h 51m 16.00s +29° 14' 02.1" P.A. 71 sep 14.4 mag 8.54,11.00 Sp A0 dist. 147.49 pc (481.11 l.y.)
22h 51m 17.09s +29° 14' 06.8" P.A. 342 sep 3.9 mag 11.00,12.50 dist. 147.49 pc (481.11 l.y.)
STF 2949 AB: 20" 533x: Quite easy, B is a little blue, wide.
22h 51m 56.12s +30° 01' 41.4" P.A. 182 sep 11.4 mag 9.65,10.69 Sp F8
TDT3763 AB: 20" 533x: ! Cool! B just shows itself with seeing ~1.5" separation. Can tell its there, even with some smearing it does resolve to a point
22h 52m 24.77s +28° 18' 54.9" P.A. 13 sep 1.7 mag 10.43,11.85
KU 66 AB: 20" 533x: Easy near equal wide pair
22h 54m 59.62s +33° 04' 20.7" P.A. 3 sep 3.7 mag 10.64,11.00 Sp K0+G5
BRT 61 AB: 20" 533x: Faint but easy near equal pair, wide, white [not physical]
22h 55m 28.55s +29° 53' 55.3" P.A. 59 sep 4.7 mag 11.50,11.70
HJ 976 AB, 20" 533x: Easy wide, equal pair
22h 56m 34.47s +31° 50' 23.1" P.A. 72 sep 8.5 mag 10.50,10.50
HO 192 AB: 20" 533x: Much fainter B, ~1.5", two delta mag.
22h 59m 47.55s +30° 04' 38.5" P.A. 30 sep 1.5 mag 8.65,10.57 Sp A5V dist. 235.85 pc (769.34 l.y.)
STF 2968 AB: 8" 533x: Pretty yellow-white A and bluish B, pretty wide, two delta mag
23h 00m 42.41s +31° 04' 58.7" P.A. 93 sep 3.2 mag 6.69,9.48 Sp B9pMn dist. 135.5 pc (442 l.y.)
ES 2362 AB: 20" 533x: Near equal faint, ~2"
23h 01m 32.70s +31° 02' 39.2" P.A. 186 sep 2 mag 11.10,11.60
HO 193 AB: 20" 533x: Pretty faint yellow B, two delta mag to white A, a little more than 2" separation
23h 03m 42.24s +29° 53' 58.2" P.A. 173 sep 2.5 mag 8.34,10.68 Sp F6V dist. 73.53 pc (239.85 l.y.)
STF 2974 AB: 20" 533x: Easy 1 delta mag white, pretty wide
23h 05m 01.12s +33° 23' 08.0" P.A. 168 sep 2.7 mag 8.07,8.46 Sp A0V+A3V dist. 244.5 pc (797.56 l.y.)
STF 174 AB: 8" 533x: 1 Ari. ! Very beautiful yellow-orange A and robin's egg blue B, 3", one delta mag. probably one of the best color pairs
01h 50m 08.60s +22° 16' 29.5" P.A. 165 sep 2.9 mag 6.33,7.21 Sp G3III dist. 179.53 pc (585.63 l.y.)
HO 311: AB 20" 1067x: Nice clear split with seeing, more near equal but there is a noticeable magnitude difference, white stars
01h 51m 13.34s +24° 39' 08.0" P.A. 179.1 sep 0.41 mag 8.22,7.82 Sp F1V dist. 131.06 pc (427.52 l.y.)
J 671 AB: 20" 533x: B star is faint but not difficult, ~3", very nice
01h 52m 58.18s +21° 52' 13.1" P.A. 153 sep 2.7 mag 11.60,11.80
STF 180 AB: 8" 533x: Gamma Arietis / Mesarthim: Perfectly equal pair, wide, very white.
01h 53m 31.76s +19° 17' 38.6" P.A. 2 sep 7.4 mag 4.52,4.58 Sp A1pSi+B9V dist. 50.3 pc (164.08 l.y.)
BU 260 AB: 8" 533x: Fine pair, well split, half delta mag.
01h 53m 14.21s +15° 26' 00.3" P.A. 261.4 sep 1.09 mag 8.75,8.97 Sp F5 dist. 110.74 pc (361.23 l.y.)
COU 352 AB: 20" 533x: Faint pair, smeared, elongated and resolves with seeing and averted vision
01h 54m 23.02s +17° 53' 43.8" P.A. 21 sep 1 mag 11.01,11.56 Sp F2
HEI 433 AB: 20" 533x: 11th mag B star easier since wider separation, faint, half delta mag, wide pair
01h 54m 28.42s +17° 37' 49.7" P.A. 192 sep 3.6 mag 10.80,11.60
HEI 208 AB: 20" 533x: Very faint, need to wait for seeing, splits with seeing and a little averted vision, ~1.5", half delta mag
01h 54m 37.99s +14° 05' 34.2" P.A. 180 sep 1.4 mag 11.43,11.84
A 2323 AB: 20" 533x: Fine pair, easily seen B, not difficult since wider separation. ~1.5", 1.5 delta mag
01h 54m 45.56s +17° 28' 01.4" P.A. 146 sep 1.7 mag 9.50,10.88 Sp K0
COU 453 AB: 20" 533x: ! I get clean split, the B star is very faint and just within A's diffraction ring, but it's there. Great!
01h 56m 19.96s +25° 20' 24.0" P.A. 281 sep 0.7 mag 10.45,10.79 Sp F0
STF 189: 20" 533x: Orange and blue stars, wide, surprised these are nice hard points
01h 57m 09.47s +18° 57' 32.2" P.A. 269 sep 9 mag 9.88,10.97 Sp K7
STF 194 AB: 20" 533x: Lovely white pair, near equal, well separated, ~3"
01h 59m 18.95s +24° 49' 44.6" P.A. 279 sep 1.3 mag 7.62,9.46 Sp A3 dist. 193.42 pc (630.94 l.y.)
STF 200 AB: 20" 533x: Wide separated white pair, more than one delta mag.
02h 01m 36.23s +24° 05' 22.3" P.A. 124 sep 8.1 mag 9.55,10.29 Sp G0
STF 208 AB: 8" 533x: 10 Ari Pretty white and slightly off-white or blue-white B, 2.5 delta mag, ~1.5"
02h 03m 39.26s +25° 56' 07.6" P.A. 348.5 sep 1.55 mag 5.82,7.87 Sp F8IV dist. 48.71 pc (158.89 l.y.)
TDS2117 AB: 20" 533x: Fine near equal white pair, well separated to wide.
02h 06m 24.51s +21° 41' 56.0" P.A. 14 sep 2.1 mag 10.77,10.97
HO 312 AB: 20" 533x: 11 Ari Used apodizing screen to tone A down. B is bluish & resolves out on the edge of A's diffraction with seeing and is very, very faint compared to A.
02h 06m 49.22s +25° 42' 16.5" P.A. 340 sep 1.7 mag 6.00,11.50 Sp B9IV-Vn dist. 268.82 pc (876.89 l.y.)
I closed the night with a long look at Uranus, beautiful aqua blue.
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