Telly
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Went out this morning with binoculars. The totality was predicted to be from 5:25 to 6:25 AM CDT. But there were low broken clouds at less than 1,000' due to a low layer of humid air moving rapidly from the South. Only saw the moon through thin cloud, which killed any hope at all of seeing Uranus, which was supposed to be to the upper left of the moon.
But overhead and about every other direction, there were big patches of open sky, so could see lots of stars. I thought I ID'd one of the Dippers, it was straight South and up over 45 degrees from the horizon, and sort of upside-down. But later looking it up on Wiki, seems it couldn't be either the Big or Little Dipper, as it was to the South. Sure looked like it, though, three brighter stars in a nice straight row, and others to make up the handle with curve. So no idea, maybe it's Telly's Dipper! (yeah, that would be my luck, it's dumped upside-down and all the waters gone
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Even years ago before more population and light pollution here, the sky seemed pretty empty once one looked well North of directly overhead, like a big empty area to the North.
But overhead and about every other direction, there were big patches of open sky, so could see lots of stars. I thought I ID'd one of the Dippers, it was straight South and up over 45 degrees from the horizon, and sort of upside-down. But later looking it up on Wiki, seems it couldn't be either the Big or Little Dipper, as it was to the South. Sure looked like it, though, three brighter stars in a nice straight row, and others to make up the handle with curve. So no idea, maybe it's Telly's Dipper! (yeah, that would be my luck, it's dumped upside-down and all the waters gone
)Even years ago before more population and light pollution here, the sky seemed pretty empty once one looked well North of directly overhead, like a big empty area to the North.
