Ok, I admit it. I don't like freezing so I stayed closer to home Saturday night and went to SPOC. Although the eyepiece test that had been scheduled for Saturday was canceled so Bruce could do some work on the Big Scope a few folks showed up anyway. I'm really getting spoiled by the scope. Saturn (no surprise here) looked great but the thing that blew me away was the view of M-82. The dark dust lanes were beautiful. And I could have sworn I saw a hint of color. But if that was not good enough, I heard from someone who went back about 4:30 am who reported: "...I looked for the central star in the ring nebula. At 180x the center of the nebula is so bright that I couldn't see it, but using 310x it was easy with averted vision, but tough to see straight on. ~500x brought it out without averted vision." He added that M-13 at 180x was "absolutely breathtaking". Drool... Patrick