The Monte Cristo star party a couple of weeks ago turned out real nice. The viewing was great. I was out Weds. through Sat. night. The seeing was great Weds., Thurs. and Friday. By Friday night I was done playing with the Messier objects and decided to do some NGCs. I started looking for 3998 in my 10" f/4.5. I saw two fuzzy stars and since my Orion map only showed one of them I decided to go and have Doug point BOB (18.5") at them. In the BOB we saw 3 galaxies. We looked at a more detailed map (Sky Atlas 2000.0) and identified which galaxies were which. We then spent the next several hours touring around and looking at NGC galaxies with BOB. While we were in the area of M101 we took a look at it. I think this was the most impressive thing I saw the whole week. The spiral arms were clear and well defined. There were knots of stars visible in the arms. It was absolutely beautiful. The next night it was a fuzzy blob with the spiral arms barely visible. Friday night taught me a couple of things. One, I need a bigger scope and two, I need a Sky Atlas 2000.0 and maybe even a digital setting circle. I guess I better hurry and put the 16" mirror I finished into a scope. Thanks. David Dunn PS - How was Wolf Creek?