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Last night we had our first cloudless evening twilight in weeks.  I kept
waiting for Polaris to appear.  Finally just after civil twilight ended I
set the sextant to the expected altitude and swept the horizon at north
azimuth.  Polaris popped clearly into view against the horizon.  But when I
looked up with my naked eye (and brand new glasses) I could not see Polaris
for several more minutes, until the sky darkened further.  A friend who was
standing nearby could not see it either.

Is that a commonly used method for finding faint stars before the horizon
gets too dark?

To answer this question as an affirmative.
What power scope were you viewing Polaris through with your sextant?
Try this trick also on Venus as one may view Venus in early C.T. when
conditions are right.

   

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