Great time only a few visitors tonight. The weather was perfect for a night out. But the sky was a bit humid with less than perfect seeing conditions. It was clear, somewhat breezy, and temps dropped a bit. Thermals kept the high powered seeing down. Mars, Venus and Saturn displayed some unsteadiness with higher power eyepieces like the 10mm and 9mm in the c 14 showing quit a bit of thermal jumping and not really sharp edges of Saturns rings for example. Lower powers provided a more stable and sharp images but still a few moments of unsteady viewing would appear; even with a 40mm eyepiece. The 2 inch 40mm looked a lot better than the 1.25 inch 40mm in the c14.
I took a few attempted photos of a faint comet temple that is in the 17.8 magnitude range. Sky lit pollution prevented very long exposures in that attempt. Still I may have picked it up a bit with a 1600 iso exposure of 30 seconds.
Below is a photo I took of the moon throughh the c14.
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