I decided to walk with my binoculars to a park 1/8 of a mile from my house, a wide-open space with trees far enough that I could see down to the horizon. I tried and failed to find M4 in Scorpius, most likely because in the east, there was a glow from the rising moon and from Annapolis.
So, to make sure it wasn’t a complete loss, I found a nice binocular target, perhaps the binocular analog to Alberio, the telescopic double I posted about earlier today. I chose the naked-eye optical double in the Northern Cross. If you look at the cross (currently, it rises in the east on its side, the top points north, the crossbar east and west), look above and to the right of the center of the crossbar. If the sky is dark enough, you will see a pair of stars. In binoculars, it resolves to three stars, two orange and one bluish-green. There are other, fainter stars in the field too, particularly since it is in the Milky Way.
