Observing Night

This is my friend Lawrence and I out observing for the first time together.  We have been trying to get together with our telescopes for more than a year.  He found a used telescope in a shop and wanted to go out observing so that I could show him a few things about using it.  Tonight was the night and the skies looked pretty good so we went to Sunken Meadow State Park.  It turned out that there was a lot of light pollution but we saw a globular cluster and a galaxy and a triple star and a beautiful double star, with stars of different colors.  This was his first time observing and he was overwhelmed by the experience and can't wait to go observing again.  We will have to head further out east to darker skies for out next trip