The Clear Sky Clock showed all blue for Thursday night only. The Satellite Infrared showed the monsoon flow turning east and missing the Salt Lake area. So I went out to the west desert at Lakeside to catch the Perseid shower. The radiant came right out of the double cluster and there were lots of bright ones that started 60 degrees from the radiant and stretched almost to the south horizon with a frequency was about one per minute. There were also a lot of very dim short ones in close to the radiant. Moonset wasnÂt until 11:30pm so I spent the early evening on double stars and bright planetary nebula. Venus and Jupiter were too low to show much more than mush. Starting at moonset, I made a tour of the Milky Way from Scorpius all the way around to Perseus. Left a 2:00 am before Mars rose high enough to show any detail. Glad I went out. DT --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page