Finally, it was clear enough to see something. Still, there were lots of clouds around. I used binoculars and made tonight a mini-observation night. I chose M29, an open cluster in Cygnus, also known as the Northern Cross. The field of view was very pretty, as it was in a section of the (invisible to the naked eye in Bowie) Milky Way. I just have to see it again in West Virginia.
There were lots of stars, but I only drew a few. I could see some Milky Way nebulosity too. M29 itself wasn’t that impressive in binoculars, a close pair of faint stars surrounded by nebulosity (in fact, it is really an open cluster).
