Best Observing in a long time

Ok so sometimes Insomnia pays off. I took my binoculars out and had a very nice time. I spent most of my time
touring around scorpius and sagatarius. Nice view of Jupiter and a few moons. Spent some time viewing M7, as well as a globular (not sure which one) and a gassious nebula. (M20?) I also saw an amazing fireball. One of the best ones I've seen. It went from Lyra or Aquila all the way to Ursa Major. with a pretty well defined head and a very long tail. I also took the binoculars off the tripod and looked around Lyra and the summer triangle. To bad that that the ring nebula is not within what you can do with my binoculars.

This was all out the back and side of the house with my celestron 15x70 skymasters. If anyone wants an intro astronomy tool these are great. Not the fanciest thing in the world, and not really great for planets. But for under $100 its about the best you can do, assuming you can find a heavy duty tripod.

Some actual observing...

Mostly the weather has been bad and I've been really busy, so I haven't had much time to observe.

However yesterday afternoon the moon was out in the afternoon sky, and could be seen in my home office window. I was able to get a nice view without ever leaving my chair care of my 15x70 binoculars. This morning as I got up before dawn to go to Natz* Jupiter was shining high in the south. Maybe one day this week I will get up to get a good look, as I didn't have a chance to get the binoculars out.

*Natz, is the jewish morning prayers done literally at dawn (IE The first possible moment you can) . I go because there won't be a long sermon to listen to.