Observing at the end of February
The winter was extremely bad to do astronomical observations. We had a lot of storms, rain, clouds, and only a few clear nights, but mostly at moments when the moon was too bright to observe. But for the last weekend of February, all weather prediction sites prognosed nice clear nights around the new moon. I could observe on Friday and Sunday evening. There were some high clouds on Saturday before midnight, so I did not observe. On Monday evening, the sky was only good for 2 hours before the clouds covered the whole sky. As some rain was predicted during the second part of the night, I moved the telescope inside and did not observe. Friday 25: Family stargazing, testing new stuff, C/2019 L3 ATLAS and NGC 1501 It was still raining in the afternoon, but as predicted, the sky cleared out totally and it was a very clear night. After collimating the Obsession telescope, around 20:00, Lotte and Sara joined me to see some spectacular objects. We looked at the following objects: M 45,