Star Hopper.

Set up the Skywatcher about half an hour before sunset, Twilight was dark enough to clearly see Venus at 1630, at 240x I could easily focus the half disc, little detail was made out due to its brightness, thought I would be daring and went to 600x at 1645 to try and spread the light out over a larger area, bearing in mind this is double the reccomended magnification of the scope, after lots of wobbling, I got a beautiful milky half disc, with a very slight hint of CA.

Got an unknown sighting, something with a high magnitude, it was visible at 1653 before any stars, it was moving, appeader to have CA at any magnification aswell, don't know how to write EQ grid coordinates, but i noted where my dials where, the siderial axis was at 3 degrees, and the other was at 12 seconds (probably completely wrong/useless, but you never know) it was roughly east south east, at between 20 to 30 degrees elevation...

After failing to rensolve any detail on my enigma, I moved onto the Pleiades, resloving those beautiful lights across the FOV, and had a good sweep right through at 48x in the Skywatcher before scanning around with the binoculars, looking at a few binary stars, and getting a better knowledge of the constellations, I now know Pegasus, Taurus, and Cygnus, sone of Cetus, very hard to resolve its lower stars due to light pollution and it being so low in the sky, and Andromeda.

I found the square of Pegasus.... Yes I know, how can you miss an asterism like THAT! well, these things are all self taught, I just was not looking for something that big. Having found this, I could work out where Andromeda was, and within minutes, at 1806, I was looking at M31 through my binoculars, I was seeing an other Galaxy, after a bit of fumbling with the telescope (EQ mounts are a huge pain to point up I have found, which is a shame as I really want to have a look in Cassiopeia) I had got it centred and resolved at 48x, making out a feint grey haze, with a lighter centre. I tracked it for at least a quarter of an hour, hoping that more detail would become apparent, but to mo avail, but still, I have seen it, and I know where to look again.

Also I saw a circumpolar Sattelite pass almost directly overhead at around 1750, passing east of Cassiopeia, don't know if it was an Iridium Flare, but it is something else I saw before I was visited by unforcasted cloud, dashing my plans to go back out at 0230 to see Saturn, Orions' Nebula, te multiple star system in Orion, and some of the highlights of the later rising constellations like the beehive in Cancer, or the galaxies in Leo, Cassiopeia would have moved around, and Ursa Major would be much higher too. All that sky to see, and nothing but the weather holding me back.