Observation Sunday Night 4/28 with Percy

Place: Pine View service road
Time: 8 30 to 10 30
One of the coolest things we observed all night was Saturn. It looked fake almost through the telescope, it was that cool. Two moons were very easily discernible, and while I think I saw two others (one very close to the top of the planet, and another very close to the bottom of the planet) it could have just been a trick of my eyes from staring into the thing for so long. We did try to record our observations on a little printout of the planet. We also looked at the Beehive Cluster, both through the telescope and through the binoculars. I almost liked looking at it through the binoculars better, because you can actually get the entire cluster in your field of view, whereas you have to scroll east or west for like ten minutes to see everything in the telescope because it's just that huge. We also took a look at the sombrero galaxy, as well as a galaxy we don't need to know for the Constellation quizzes (I think it was like M87?). We did some basic constellation identification as well. It was very interesting to watch Orion set, and Mars confused some of us at first because it looked like there was another first magnitude star right next to Castor and Pollux in Gemini. Other than that we pretty much just looked at assorted first magnitude stars, though we did do some other galaxy identification through the binoculars.