Tonight's the big night, get those binos & mounts ready! Weather prospects are excellent. Patrick has a map posted at: http://planet.state.ut.us/slas/maps/map012.jpg Also, at this moment I hold in my hands a copy of Phil Harrington's Star Ware, third edition, and starting on page 297 is a description and construction article for Glen Warchol's "crutch mount". Congratulations, Glen! Unfortunately, Phil edited-out the all-important "El Presidente" ingredient (ask me later...). I will bring this copy with me tonight; it's Glens own advance copy. Glen plans to be at Binopalooza tonight. Note that he will be using one of my parallelogram mounts, since he gave the crutch mount away at the April SLAS meeting! We will have the Bear/Oberwerk comparison set-up for a while also, if you want to compare these clones for yourself. I am also bringing the S.G. 10x50's ($19.97!) that are so impressive for the price, as well as the 7x50's with internal nebula filters. I am bringing my 12x25's, and will try and detect at least 20 Messier & NGC objects with them. (bets, anyone?) Rich Tenney will be there also, volunteering his own parallelogram to help with the B/O showdown before he settles into his own observing program. Thanks, Rich! I am also thinking of bringing a telescope, though bino-activity may be enough to keep me occupied all-night. If I don't bring one of the scopes that were in S&T, I'll bring my fiberglass 10" dob. Hope to see you all there! Bill Kelley, you'll be there in spirit, I'm sure. Get well soon! Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com