Although I did not expect to be able to see the Pleiades just a few minutes after civil sunset, at 6:00pm I put a small 60mm refractor on the Moon and was rewarded with a nice view of a shadow ray in Clavius on the Moon and 5 Pleiadan stars shining from a steel blue-grey sky. Taygetae 19 Tau, Mai 20 Tau, Electra 17 Tau, a fainter Celaneo 16 Tau and the Moon were visible in a 1.2 deg TFOV. One field away, Alycone 25 Tau and Merope 23 Tau could be seen. At 6:03pm, Taygeta winked off during ingress behind the dark limb. Celaneo 20 was a lunar grazer that passed a few arc minutes below the south pole and terminator, but was never obscured. The sky color was quite pleasing and I think in the future I will look at the Moon under similar conditions instead of waiting for it to get dark. By 6:15pm, Maia 20 Tau was just beginning its own lunar south pole graze. I packed it up for while. At 6:55pm, I again set up the small refractor to watch egress of two Pleiaden stars on the bright limb. Mai 20 Tau was ending its wide-field graze-pass of the south pole. At about 7:00pm, I took a break from the eyepiece, looked up and there was a great pass by the ISS at about -2 mags from the northwest to the south east at about 35 degs alt. (Checked and it shows up on the NASA ISS Sighting Calculator. I had not thought to check for ISS overflights tonight.) A few minutes later, fainter 5.6v 18 Tau egressed on the bright limb. With 60mm of aperture, I did not see the moment of egress. It was overwhelmed by bright limb. About five minutes after egress it was sufficiently far (2 or 3 arcminutes) from the bright limb to be detected. This was a rare nice observing day for me: At 5am, I went out and took a look at Comet Lulin, a peak at Saturn and the "Y" shaped Struve 761-762 system around sigma Orion. Around 11:30am, a quick peak for small prominences off the Sun's limb with the PST. 6pm - Moon and an occulted star ingress. 7pm - Satellite overpass and an occulted star egress. I decided to pass looking for Comet Kushida in Tau. The Moon was within 20 degrees and it did not seem to be worth the trouble, but I see Patrick got an image. Overslept on the 1:22am Vandenberg launch. - Kurt Some background reading: Weaver, H.R. 1947. The Visibility of Stars without Optical Aid. (Visibility of stars near sunset.) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1947PASP...59..232W