I stepped out back for a little while last night, to admire Venus sitting there just below the Pleiades. Really a spectacular sight, I was using a 60-year-old ATCO 60x910mm refractor, modern 1.25" dielectric diagonal, and a 60-year-old Jaegers 56mm eyepiece. The whole scene fit in the FOV nicely. A TV 25mm Plossl gave a similar view, higher power but larger AFOV, overall the Jaegers gave the slightly better view. The weather may give us another break tonight, give it a look if you can. I then looked at M42 just because you can't not look at it if you are out with a scope and Orion is up. Over to the moon and the little old refractor really showed it's stuff. Uncorrected color was minimal, the view was nice and crisp up to 105X. The seeing was better than average last night. And finally it was nice to see Betelgeuse brighter than it has been in months. Orion looks almost normal again. Stay safe, my friends. Wear a mask rated no lower than N95, and rubber gloves, whenever you go out, and only go out when you must.