And last night my deck-walk included a view of the ice ring around the moon with a bright red-flashy-light leading a contrail approaching the western edge... which was pierced .. .and the redlight and contrail proceeded to split the moon, leaving vague shadows of their own ...whee...

am thinking of getting some astronomical binoculars (say 70 or 80 mm lenses) if income allows it; my older binoculars were cast-offs and just don't cut the light collection as they should with my eyes aging...