Thanks to Bruce and the SPOC committee for the Ealing focuser upgrade and maintenance on the digital setting circle measuring rotors. I used the Ealing last evening for about an hour to practice galaxy targeting but ending up staying on M65 and M66 under high-humdity water-vapor-obscured moderate-to-poor seeing. A stream of about six children and five adults cycled through the Ealing. The new focuser has a profile where the focusing tube is much closer to the Ealing base. Although kids still tended to try and put weight on the focuser, due to the focuser's lower horizontal profile, they could not get as much leverage in the second that it takes for an operator to wave them off. The fine focuser knob makes for smooth quick adjustment to a crisp image. One general public visitor commented that he did not understand why the 16 inch Ealing had such a better image than the larger Grim scope. But I suspect that, as a glasses wearer, he was able to get the Ealing into proper focus with the fine focusing knob but could not do so with the Grim. On setup, I aligned the Skywizard on Arcturus and did a Skywizard Find to Denebola - a 35 degree slew through a meridian swap. The Skywizard targeted to within 3/4 of a degree. After synching the Skywizard on Denebola (ST419), a 7 degree slew to M65 was within 1/2 degree - just on the edge of a 1/3 degree TFOV. I was unable to speed calibrate the Astrophysics controller. I believe this may be because the Ealing feels more unbalanced than I recall being in previous years, particularly on the declination axis. I understand from the SLAS board meeting this week that there was discussion of replacing another key component in quick-accurate targeting of the Ealing - the 4.25 inch Mak. My experience with the Mak was the same as on prior sessions. The TLM of 4.25 inch aperture is critical to accurate targeting of the Ealing. With 4.25 inches of aperture, most galaxy and globular faint fuzzies can just be seen in the Mak's 1.25 deg TFOV. If you center both the Ealing eyepiece and the Mak on a bright star (like Denebola) and then do a short slew to a target, seeing the faintly target in the 4.25 inch Mak is essential to quickly getting the target in the Ealing's 1/3 degree eyepiece field-of-view. In the other smaller aperture finders, their TLM is too low to see most galaxies or globulars. The problem with the Mak is that there is no way to smoothly and quickly make a finder centering adjustment by using a bright star to co-align it with the Ealing eyepiece. IMHO, if the proposal is to replace the Mak with a fixed refractor, maintaining the 4.25 inches of aperture with its higher TLM is essential along with the ability to smoothly recenter the 4.25 inch finder after a meridian swap. IMHO, having a seamless and smooth method of recentering the 4.25 inch finder is the higher priority fix than changing the Mak - which has an inherent mirror flop targeting error - to a refractor - which has no mirror flop error. Thanks to Dave B. for directing targets on the Grim and to Daniel T. for a quick galaxy and comet tour on his 16 inch DOB. Clear Skies - Kurt