Observation

Thursday, October 11
Location: Hawkins Road off of Clark
Time: 8:15 to 9:30pm

Cloud coverage: None
Light pollution: The only light that caused pollution came from a telephone pole northwest of the observing grounds.

The moon was not visible during the time; however, it was in the new moon phase.

Instruments: Binoculars, naked eye, a green laser pointer, red flash lights, and a rotating-optical telescope.
Constellations: Scutum, Ursa Minor, Aquila, Delphinus, Sagittarius, Ophiuchus, Hercules, Cepheus, Lyra, Scorpius, and Cygnus.
Planets: Saturn and Jupiter (moons visible w/ telescope).
First Magnitude Stars: Deneb, Antares, Altair (Summer Triangle), and Polaris.
Nebula's:M31, M8, M13, M39, M11, M57, and M27.
The nearest galaxy to Earth, M31 or Andromeda, was visible by use of binoculars looking North.

An almost perfect square known as The Great Square of Pegasus, stretched across the Northeastern portion of the sky.

The stars that made up the night time cross, which lays in the center of the Summer Triangle, could be clearly made out with the naked eye.