Hello -- Indeed, I ended up at Lakeside, a little earlier than I had intended. It was windy for about the first hour, but nothing serious. After five hours out, I was cold, but no real complaints. About 3:00 someone in a truck kept driving up and down and shining a flashlight at me, and eventually drove over and shined his headlights. I think it must have been some kind of rangers. Quite a productive night. Started by glancing around at naked-eye objects, went to looking at some binocular objects. Looked at M77 and M33 with the scope for old times' sake. Then I got down to business. It took 1 1/2 hours for me to get my first three objects: the Cave nebula in Cepheus, the Bubble nebula in Cassiopeia, and the galaxy IC 1613 in Cetus. It took 1 1/2 hours for me to get my next 2 objects, the galaxies NGC 2635 and NGC 1961 in Camelopardalis. Combination of bad aiming to start, and difficulty navigating near the pole. NGC 1961 was much easier than I had expected. Then the last 2 hours was more frenetic. I picked up all the Herschels in Gemini and all the Herschels in Orion, to bring my total to 275. Splitting NGC2371/2372 was probably the biggest challenge here. Closed with Hubble's variable nebula in Monoceros, which finishes the Caldwells for me down to 73. With some horizon scraping, I think getting down to 80 is possible, maybe from Southern Utah. But for now, I took the book out of my bag and put it back on the shelf. Nice night, but no wildlife... ---- Rev. Michael A. van Opstall Department of Mathematics, University of Utah Office: JWB 313 opstall@math.utah.edu