1. Karen and I lived next door to Bob Brundage (Little Mountain Bob) he invited us over to look through his 8 inch refractor he had set up on his front lawn. Several planets were visible that summer in the evening. I SAW SATURN FOR THE FIRST TIME! I SAW THE RINGS!!! I felt like my life had been a waste up to that moment. My life was changed. I never found the pair of socks I was wearing that night. 2. I think it was the same night at Elizabeth Mountain Don Coulton mentioned. A guy from Preston, Idaho had a 22 inch set up next to me. It wasn't even dark yet when he suddenly got very excited. He called me over to look at Jupiter. It looked like the pictures! Swirling clouds with reds and browns. I got Ron Vanderhule. Even through his 16 inch it looked the same. 3. This was a non telescopic event. I think it was August of 1993. Comet Swift-Tuttle had come around the previous fall. A couple hundred people were gathered at Little Mountain to see the Persied Meteor Shower. It was a Thursday night. Fireballs could be seen before it was dark! Through the night we counted over 700 meteors! My wife Karen and I along with Patrick and Brent Watson were the only ones to stay the whole night. Deloy