I generally welcome a sunny day — if it’s going to lead to a clear night. However, clear nights this part of the lunar cycle are not quite as exciting. No, a full disc moon is not really something that makes for great ‘dark skies’. However, it does allow one to hit double stars, globular clusters, and of course, the ever exciting planetary nebula. Last night’s target was M27, the Dumbbell Nebula. Lumicon’s UHC filter probably would have been best, but I still ended up using the Orion More >