Field Notes — eclipticam v3w
Uranus is the next planet out from Saturn and the one in from Neptune, and at magnitude 5.7 it is two magnitudes brighter than Neptune: 6 times the light. It is in Taurus this year, six and a half degrees from the Pleiades.
Peter: "we should have a field note for sharpest thing resolved." This is it, and it will be updated whenever the record falls.
Sizes on the sky are angles. A circle is 360 degrees, a degree is 60 arcminutes (1′), and an arcminute is 60 arcseconds (1″).
Peter: "recent screenshot has orion and M42 circled in blue. I like 1 being Betelgeuse, maybe we can detect its redness. It would be nice to see how sharp we can get M42, my first nebula." Both turn out to be visible in a camera pointed at the sky over the rooftops: Betelgeuse's colour in every frame, and a hint of the nebula after two hours of stacking.