Well, it certainly looked like a bust all day, with the clouds coming and going. But by the time I got to SPOC around 6:45, the sun was shining with a lot of thin cirrus clouds challenging the potential evening. The sun was sweet! But I had to get a peek through Steve’s refractor at night – just to compare. The sunset was quite colorful and beautiful, but that color translated to lots of thin clouds. It looked like it was going to be an early night, but FINALLY Vega poked through – barely- directly overhead. So it might end up being a “sucker hole” night. That’s when just one part of the sky clears and everyone turns their telescope to that place and then it clouds over, but another break in the clouds appears elsewhere so everyone turns their telescopes to that point and then... “sucker!!” Slowly, over time all those thin clouds disappeared and the night turned into a true joy. Oh, and BTW, Steve’s got a great refractor --- but my refractor is better than his (certainly in my own mind). He had epsilon lyrae split with 90 magnification. He didn’t see it, but I did, although it wasn’t rock solid - they were “footballs” with occasional dark lines between. At 220 mag, it was a clean split, as it should have been. Bruce had the 11” “handicap” scope out there and it’s image of M13 was spectacular. Might I say “resolved to the core?” I challenged both Steve and Bruce, who had Gotos to look at Alpha Hercules. Neither of their gotos had it in their database, even by star name. Finally I looked at Bruce and pointed to the proper place in the sky and said “Geez, it’s right there!!!” Like a seesick (not seasick) sailor, Bruce had to get his star hopping legs back, but he managed (hehe) AND NO, I am not starting up the goto pushto debate again. It was just a “funny” moment. The real debate was the color of the pair. I just wanted to see what people thought. For those of you who missed it you are S.O.L. for those of you who took the chance, it was a blast.