It's one of those rare combinations of weekend evenings and clear skies, though it was still too cold to do any long-period stargazing (mid 20s, no wind at least).
I started out wanting to split some binary stars but, for the life of me, I could not split ANY of Gemini's binary stars. Bad seeing maybe?
Instead, I looked at my Urban Sky Checklist and picked out M35, an open cluster. This is my first open cluster outside of Orion and I could not find it, at first, when I was using my 12.5mm eyepiece. Switched to my 25mm eyepiece and there it is. Definitely go medium to low power for open clusters. Unfortunately, I left my sketchpad inside the house (doh!) but definitely worth coming back to.
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