I'm sure most people know about the Knolls OHV area, and many have probably observed there. I'm also sure that in the summer and on weekends it may not be so great a place. But I went last night for a few hours, and it was excellent. To get there: Take exit 41 off I 80, go S and get on the frontage road heading W (there are signs). I set up in "Parking Pad 1", which had vault toilets (with no exterior lights!!). I-80 is visible. Wendover looks like zodiacal light (I think they were combined yesterday). But it's very dark. And unlike my last trip out, I had no dewing problems, and didn't come home with all my stuff covered in dust. Also, I assume this has to do with Dugway, but some funny stars appear (about magnitude -5) and disappear from time to time... All observations done with a f/5 6" equatorially mounted reflector at 30x, except for verifying p.n. at 75x. Got there with some twilight left. Used Venus to align my finder (which didn't need aligning). Looked at Mercury at 150x, because it was there. Not so interesting. Looked at M42 at 75x with a UHC filter. The UHC brought out more of it. Double cluster was naked eye, so I pointed the telescope at it as well. Incidentally, an awful lot of stuff was naked eye -- the usual Beehive, Auriga clusters, etc. I want to say that I saw NGC 2506 naked eye, but I can't be sure. I pointed the telescope at what I thought was a fuzzy patch of sky, and NGC 2506 was there... Tried for NGC 891 next. Went 1/3 of the way from Algol to Almach -- this is where M34 is. Realized I was measuring the wrong way, and hunted all around about 1/4 - 1/3 of the distance from Almach to Algol. Failed. Wrote it off to some clouds in the NW and that it wasn't fully dark. But I came back two times later and couldn't find it either. Strange, because I found edge-on NGC 4236 in Draco, which I assumed would be harder. Went over to Cassiopeia and got NGC 663, 654, and for the first time, 559. Then it got cloudy, so I moved to Monoceros. Found the cluster in the Rosette nebula, but couldn't see the nebula at first. I blinked the UHC filter in front of the ep and saw the nebula; then I could see it without the filter. Looked at a couple of open clusters: NGC 2360 and the Tau CanMaj in Can. Maj. Oddly, I couldn't see the Messier OC there naked eye. Went back to Perseus. Found Perseus A, at least according to my charts, but it still looked fairly stellar to me at 75x. Down to Cass. for the Phi Cas cluster. Over to Cepheus: NGC 188 (also a first for me), the galaxy NGC 6946 (a satellite flew by while I was looking). Found the p.n. NGC 40 in Cepheus, but failed to find some other nebulous spots I looked for there and in Auriga. Even with UHC and OIII. Tried to figure out where Camelopardalis is. Figured out enough to find NGC 2403 (the bright one) and IC 342 (I think this is my first find from the IC; this was one of the highlights of the night). Followed this up with another highlight: NGC 2419 in Lynx. I think this is very nice looking. Looked at the Cat's Eye in Draco. This was the last time for the night that I was patient looking for planetaries. A subsequent try for NGC 3242 in Hydra was quickly abandoned. That one should have been easier; I just don't like high power. While in Draco, I pointed at M81/82, because I like to. I was a little off and found a very bright galaxy I hadn't seen before about 2 degrees W. I still haven't looked up what it was. All the Messier galaxies in Leo (and the third member of the trio) were just awesome. The pair NGC 3607/3608 with 3626 nearby was very nice. I looked up a few more galaxies: one in Cancer, one in Sextans, the Antennae, and a non-Messier Virgo galaxy. I had seven more Coma/Can.Ven. galaxies I wanted to find, but I needed to get some sleep, so I thought I'll go back again sometime. Next time I'll wait until Sagittarius comes up... What a great place. The overall take for about three hours was over 20 non-Messiers, and quick looks at a number of Messiers nearby the evenings targets. The drive from 5400 S & 1000 W was under 1 1/2 hours. I don't know what Lakeside is like, but this is only a little bit farther. Also, despite all the rain, it wasn't muddy. ---- Rev. Michael A. van Opstall Department of Mathematics, University of Utah Office: JWB 313 opstall@math.utah.edu