Shopping with Brian in the afternoon. New boy working in the petrol station in Piégut; we stood and watched him for a while. Brian's for food in the evening. He is such a tremendous cook. Jealous jealous jealous.

Another night of star gazing. The quarter moon was quite bright unfortunately which meant it was difficult to see everything, but now I have my night vision torch (a torch with red plastic over the lens) I can see my maps as I look around at things. There were five shooting stars tonight - although three of them could've been moths, possibly. The first one of the evening was just as I arrived, and streamed right across the south eastern sky, with a huge orange tail stretching out behind it. It didn't shift either - took its time and looked glorious. The other went across the sky from the east but was quite insignificant in comparison. Still - five is quite an impressive figure.

My discovery of my mini-dipper actually turns out to be a nebula cluster made up of Pleione, Atlas, Alcyone, Merope, Maia, Tayget and Electra. There's probably a name for the nebula thingie but Cartes du Ciel doesn't seem to want to tell me what it is. Hm.

Tonight's identifications were:

• The Summer Triangle, made up of Altair, Vega and Deneb
• AQUILA, which has Altair in it
• PEGASUS, its great square and ANDROMEDA hanging off it
• CIRCLET - although I could only make out six of the seven stars
• CEPHEUS
• Etamin and most of DRACO
• LYRA
• CYGNUS
• AQUARIUS
• DELPHINUS