A nice night with the 6-inch, though transparency was off -- as were my DSC. Somehow it was giving me grossly incorrect push to directions. I needed to re-align a couple of times during the night.
The best view was at the end of the session, around 10:30pm, when I used my Bino viewer on Saturn. I'm not convinced it was due to the binocular summation factor, but I did see all five of Saturn's brightest moons, even though three of them were quite close to the rings. Tethys and Enceladus were so close together they looked like a double star, and Rhea was hanging from the tip of the ring. The moons were very small, very faint, and flashed to view with more time observing. The rings are still nearly edge-on, and the banding on the disk was subtle -- though both poles appears somewhat flattened.
AQ And light orange-red, low power shows the color best
BLL 2A very subtly orange, brief impression of color when first look but it becomes bland with more observation
BUP 1A faint deep orange, richer color with lower power
H 4 66A faintly orange wide faint B
HD 232372 faintly reddish
HD 7734 off white or slightly yellow
HD 8701 golden, very pretty
HR 237 light orange
V466 Cas, bright light yellow, with a slightly fainter wide companion nearby. These are the "eyes" of the Owl Cluster NGC 457, which was in the field -- though did not make a strong Owl-shaped impression, likely because many fainter members were not visible due to light pollution.
Z Psc nice medium orange
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