90 MilliMeters

I’m going to try and get out there a little early tonight with my binoculars for a little scanning through Cassiopeia. The moon will rise around 8:18 PM EDT but will remain low enough until around 9:00 PM to get a few good views in. I guess I’m getting a little anxious. Before the full moon this month it skies were cloudy, now that we’re a few days past full moon and headed toward third quarter the skies have been clear but unsteady so seeing has been very poor. Makes me a little crazy sometimes. I was hoping to get some planetary observing done with Jupiter being so well placed, but, as you know, when seening is poor, objects in the eyepiece just boil.

Speaking of scanning through Cassiopeia, did you know, If we were able to observe our Sun from Alpha Centauri, the Sun would appear in Cassiopeia as a yellow-white 0.5 magnitude star. The famous ”W”of Cassiopeia would become a zig-zag pattern with the Sun at the leftmost end. Cassiopeia is positioned directly in the Milky Way.