I think I was a little more sheltered than Mike from the wind that came about 12:30 AM so it didn't affect my observing. I was using my 10.1", f4.5 Dob. The sky from about 20 degrees up was spectacular. Probably the best I have ever seen the Veil Nebula without a filter, not as contrasty as the filter view but still very visible with many more background stars. The seeing was excellent and Jupiter at 200x was the best I have seen it all year with lots of details in the cloud belts and the red spot was easy. In my 15x50 IS binoculars the North American and associated nebulae were very good as was M31 and the double cluster. I also easily split Albeiro in the binocs. I was amazed at how good the sky was particularly with the recent fires. I would say two-thirds of the sky was comparable to Bryce and the seeing was better. This was the case until about 12:30 AM. Then we saw several large lightning strikes off to the east over the Uintas. Sometime later we heard the east wind before we felt it. I was situated behind the trees on the hill and didn't experience much wind - more wind noise than real wind. After the wind came both seeing and transparency declined somewhat, maybe we had some high altitude smoke blown back. But the sky was still very good. About 2:30 AM when we were packing up - it was calm again. Clear Skies Don