Name Todd D. Vance Bowie, MD	Seeing (1-10) 5	Site Bowie, MD: N38º54'51'' W76º44'5''
Date / Time 06/29/06 23:13—23:40 EDT	Transparency(1-5) 4	Object Name M29
Instrument 9x63 5.8 FOV binoculars	Power 9X	Constellation Cygnus
Location: ____h ____m ____s ____º ____' ____'' J2000 (Starry Night)

A few scattered clouds, could see but not split Epsilon Lyrae with the naked eye. Sadr (Gamma Cygni, the crosspiece star of the Northern Cross), the brightest star to the north, is slightly yellow and was very spikey in the field of view. Milky way nebulosity could be seen through the binoculars in this area—the haze drawn is where it seemed most prominent (it seemed to form a ring around Sadr, but this likely was because Sadr's glare made it invisible in its vicinity). It seemed to fork, moving southwest of Sadr, with a fork going west, and a fork going south. The west fork split again past the center of the field of view. It actually looked like numerous fuzzy globs—perhaps it would have been better to draw it that way, using some sketching analog to painting with crumpled tissue.

In the center is an asterism (marked in the sketch) that looks like a very tiny dipper—the bright star in the bowl is 34 Cygni. Just east of it is M29, which looked to me like a faint pair of stars with faint nebulosity. In reality, M29 is an open cluster—the faintest stars could not be resolved in binoculars, so they appeared as nebulosity. It has two seperated groupings of bright stars—these are probably what appeared to be two stars. Just east of M29 is an optical double. This and the dipper could help one find M29 in a telescope.

I quit before I drew all the stars, as the angle I was looking seemed to put me in an uncomfortable position and I was getting restless. I did draw a lot of the stars surrounding Sadr, as can be seen.