What a night! 10 hours of telescope time, over 300 galaxies checked for SN (saw 2 known SN but none new), followed up on a newly discovered Near Earth Object, nice view of Comet Garradd (no tail seen) and all with beautifully crisp, clear skies, no equipment malfunctions and no frost on the corrector (despite the -14 reading on my outside thermometer just now as I'm closing up). I'm going to bed this morning with a smile on my face but I'm guessing the next few nights are not going to be as nice. patrick :) BTW, for the techies on the list, one of the aviation groups I hang out with is having a talk this evening (Tuesday) on the GPS system, preceded by what SLAS would call an "ATS" except in this case the sponsor is picking up the tab. Let me know off list if you'd like details. Hey, it just occurred to me that it will be held out by where Barrett keeps his new meteor finding toy. I wonder if he'd show it off... :)