Primary ..........Blue-white 
Companion......No color observed 

Cold, dreary night. Sky is cold and colorless. Stars are dim through the telescope in spite of good transparency. 
 
Ambience: Last night was very strange. Very clear. Bright stars. Great transparency.  The LM was about mag 5 at a site where it seldom gets above 3.5 or 4.0.  And the seeing was absolutely horrible. Stars were little fur balls. Increasing magnification only made them larger fur balls. No indication of diffraction rings even at 285x or 570x. 

We have a storm approaching from the Pacific with warm wet air from the west and a brisk wind bringing cooler dry air down the Columbia River Gorge from the east. I suspect that these air masses were colliding right over our area with the resulting deterioration of seeing. And the wind was brisk. I finally had to take off the dew shield to reduce the sail area. 

Interestingly, the stars were bright to the naked eye and very dim through the telescope. The LM through the telescope was low....maybe 10. 
 

As I must get up at 6am to go to work tomorrow, I have to call it a night. Hard to do since this is the clearest the sky has been in almost 2 weeks! Oh well. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.