Deneb, or Alpha Cygni is one of the three stars of the summer triangle and is the “top” of the northern cross. Because Cygnus is in the Milky Way, you see a rich starfield in binoculars–the drawing doesn’t begin to do justice to the Deneb starfield, especially under a dark sky. Many stars you cannot actually see, but your eyes still detect that they are there; there is a “sensation” of far more stars than you can actually resolve. Partly, this is the nebulosity of the faint starglow, and partly, the stars do come into vision, especially averted vision, briefly and disappear. This is an older observation, as tonight is rainy and cloudy with storms. Tonight was to be a Howard Astronomical League star party, but the weather had something to say about that.