Date: 12/6/07
Time:8:15-9:00pm
Location: Church off of Hawkins Road
Tools Used: Naked eye, laser pointer, binoculars, and two telescopes.
Light Pollution: Minimal, only a few lights visible in the northern direction.
Cloud Coverage: 5%-8%
Temperature: 58-65 degrees
Moon: The moon was not visible and it was at apogee, so it was the farthest from Earth in its orbit-406,235km
Constellations: Andromeda, Ursa Minor (Little Dipper), Lyra, Delphinus, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Pegasus (Great Square), Persus, Pisces, Cetus, Cygnus (Northern Cross), and Aquarius.
Planets: Mars and Uranus
Stars: Polaris (and faint star at 1 o'clock), Vega, Gemini Twins, Deneb.
Miscellaneous: Gamma, Andromeda, M42 (Orion Nebula), and a shooting star in the northwest direction.
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