Chuck, I happened to wake up a little early and remembered your heads-up about the 13th. I got out on my back porch with my little Meade at 3am. I noticed some cloud cover obscuring the moon but could tell it would clear soon. So I checked out Jupiter. I am glad I did because IO and Europa were 18” apart. Using my standard 25mm Orion Plossl that I use with the 4” Meade I could make out the dark bands. So while the sky was clearing in the area of the moon I took time to plop in one of my favorite eyepieces, the 13mm Nagler (Type 6). What a treat! The moons of Jupiter were sharp and the dark bands were quite evident. Ganaymede and Callisto were on opposite sides with IO and Europa on the Callisto side. I could see Mu Cap which led me to Neptune. When the moon came out from behind the clouds, I checked it out with the Nagler and it filled the eyepiece and gave me a black-eye (seeing wise) so I went back to the 25mm. I noticed in my software that Uranus was near the moon – about 4d 38’ 38” away. I could see something out there, but I am not sure I can say it was Uranus. It was the only star-like object near the moon that wasn’t washed out. The terminator was passing through Serenitatis with the peaks of the creator Bassel well lighted inside the terminator – cool. Also the creator Arzachel further south was just on the terminator with the peaks nicely lit and the creator floor dark with the central peak lit up like a Christmas tree standing out in contrast. I don’t really have a good place to do photo work from this new house so I am in somewhat of a quandary as what to do. If I use the back porch I can’t see the North Star. I guess I could just use the drift method without polar aligning. It is 4:30 am. Don’t know if I should go back to bed or just play. Ok. I will play some more. Cheers Jim