Stargaze 10/03/10

We had a stargaze at Turtle Beach from 7:30 to 9:00 on Sunday 10/03. I watched Venus set on the beach, which was a gradual process, as Venus became less visible the more of Earth's atmosphere its light had to pass through. I saw Jupiter through the telescope in the SSE at amizuth ~60 degrees, and four of its moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto) were in an almost perfect straight line. Polaris was visible, but most of the circumpolar stars were obscured by the city lights. I saw M-7 through the telescope, and was able to see about 30 stars, although it actually contains 80 stars brighter than magnitude 10. We saw the Hubble Space Telescope pass overhead for about a minute in the SW!