Saturday, 4 December 2021, was mostly cloudy. I tried to observe a pass of the SpaceX Starlinks satellites that were launched on 2 December, but a bright twilight sky and clouds hid them. The sky was clear on Sunday, 5 December.

Open: Sunday, 5 December 2021, 2111 MST Temperature: 57°F

Session: 1703 Conditions: Clear

Equipment:
12" f/8 LX600 w/StarLock
2" 24mm UWA eyepiece
2" 30mm eyepiece

Camera:
iPhone 13 Pro Max

2114 MST: LX600 ON, StarLock OFF, High Precision OFF.

Viewed M35 (open star cluster), 102X and 81X.

Mounted the iPhone 13 Pro Max on the 2" 30mm eyepiece to do afocal 81X imaging of some Messier Catalog open star clusters for my iPhone Messier Catalog photo album. These StarLock autoguided images were taken with the iOS app NightCap Camera (Long Exposure, Light Boost, ISO 32000, 1sec, 1 minute, 1X lens).

M35


M36


M37


M38

Then slewed to M1 (Crab Nebula) for this StarLock autoguided image with NightCap Camera (Long Exposure, Light Boost, ISO 32000, 1sec, 1 minute, 1X lens).

M1 (Crab Nebula)

Viewed M1 (Crab Nebula), 102X. Then viewed M42 (the Great Nebula in Orion), 102X.

2158 MST: LX600 OFF.

2204 MST: Took a Sky Quality reading.

Close: Sunday, 5 December 2021, 2207 MST Temperature: 54°F

Session Length: 0h 56m Conditions: Clear, SQM 21.05

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