2016-06-23
10:15 P.M.

Weather:
No cloud cover, 70 Fahrenheit, 43% humidity

cleardarksky.com forecast:
Transparency 4/5, seeing 2/5

Objects observed:
Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, Antares/Scorpius, Spica, Arcturus, Big Dipper

The sky tonight was considerably better, with all three stars of the head of Scorpius visible between Saturn and Mars. Pi Scorpius was only able to be seen using averted vision, suggesting a limiting magnitude of 2.9.

6 of the stars in the Big Dipper were visible. The 7th, Megrez, is magnitude 3.3. No attempt to find it was made with averted vision this evening, so it might have been possible.