Cedar Key, FL

Our visit to see Oli and Doreen allowed but a couple of hours for stargazing. After our BBQ on Tuesday night (UTC Wed.), Oli and I took the TV85 out to the Shell Mound, a dark site also used during the Cedar Key Star Party. There was a good amount of haze, with thunder storms flashing to the north, but the sky near the zenith was a bit darker than I'm used to at Lake Wallkill. Upon our arrival we got to see the setting of the 3-day old thin crescent moon in the west. By the time I got the scope set up, it was gone. Checked out Saturn before it descended too far. Wind from the north picked up, shaking the scope, so we moved to the other side of the Jeep to block the wind. Jupiter was great, very sharp detail of the equatorial belts and northern and southern zones. Omega Centauri was not visible due to muck, nor were any other interesting deep sky objects other than a faint-and-fuzzy near zenith - unidentified, but probably a Messier galaxy. So we mostly stood around looking up, Oli having no idea what he was looking for or at, and me trying unsuccessfully to locate M13 in Hercules. Truth is, I was pretty lost without the GOTO mount, and I was also pretty high. Springtime skies are pretty much unknown to me anyway, so I felt kind of dumb.