Time: May 15, 2004 0300 UT - 0622 UT sun sets at 0243 UT Astro Twilight ends 0436 UT 16% moon rises at 1040 UT location: gravel quarry southeast of Park City conditions: partly cloudy mostly high cirrus occasional light breeze. Temperature: 50 F falling to 38 F dew point around 33 F. Seeing: 3/5 varying from good to very good. tranparency: 2/5 only fair and only high in the sky. scope: 444mm f/5 dob with telrad, no fan used, no shroud used. eyepieces: meade SWA 32mm 69x, meade plossls 20mm 111x, 6.4mm 347x, televue nagler type 6 13 mm 170x, televue radian 10 mm 222x, Orion ultrablock filter UBF,Orion Skyglow filter SGF. Items Seen: PLANET Jupiter, PLANET Saturn, PLANET Venus, COMET 2001 Q4, GX NGC 3226, GX NGC 3227, GX NGC 3370, GX NGC 3626, GX NGC 3659, PLANET Jupiter, 222x, 347x; Lots going on tonight. at 0300 UT IO and its moon were in transit together other three moons were to the east. IO was not visable. At 0333 UT IO egressed from transit on the western limb. at 0439 Io's shadow egressed from the western limb. At 0451 UT Europa transit ingress, afterwards Europa was visable but masquerading as a white oval in the North Equatorial Belt. Barges and festoons in the NEB also visable. PLANET Saturn, 222x; Cassini division all the way around and a wide belt on the disk. This was in early twilight. Saturn is getting too close to the sun and low in the sky. PLANET Venus, 222x; very bright and a crescent that reaches more than half way around the edge of the limb. very striking in the early twilight. COMET 2001 Q4, 69x; in the same field of view and 2 degrees south west of M44. Bright coma fills the field around a hard stellar nucleus. Tail slightly visable in 10x50 binoculars in the high clouds. A few galaxies along the spine of LEO high up the ladder when the clouds allowed it. GX NGC 3659, 170x; near 68 and 70 LEO. faint 3:1 soft and coreless. GX NGC 3626, 170x,111x; near 68 and 70 LEO. wied 4:3 face on spiral with bright stellar core. GX NGC 3370, 170x,111x; inside box of 32,40,68,70 LEO. mostly averted round coreless smudge. A pair near GAMMA LEO. GX NGC 3226, 170x; near 40,41 LEO. round with soft bright core. GX NGC 3227, 170x; near 40,41 LEO. dimmer with a fainter more stellar core. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/