I had it in my sights but couldn't pull the trigger! That's M106, a stunningly beautiful galaxy, looking wing-shaped and mottled. I was at the Wedge Friday night and everything seemed to be working well. The mount Guy built held my new refractor steady and I had the telescope balanced to counteract the refractor's weight. Through the refractor a star image showed up on my elderly IBM laptop, conveyed by the Meade Deep Space Imager. I planned to use the imager strictly as an autoguider, leaving the photography to my SBIG that was attched to my newer laptop. My Meade 12" was aimed right at M106 and tracking beaitufully; the star on the IBM drifted only slightly as the minutes wore on. My CCD camera was mounted on the Meade, waiting for me to focus the telescope. An inverter attached through my Jeep's cigarette lighter fixture was pumping AC into the power strip, and the computers were plugged into that. All set. Time to tell the Deep Space Imager to start guiding. I could not get the Deep Space Imager to connect to the telescope in guiding mode. I worked all night on that problem, trying different cables and different port setting and never got the guider started. Amid the frustrating, cold hours, I did see some interesting views - M42, with its majestic drapes of gasses; M31, which is so big and close that it's too large for me to deal with in my imaging program; M100, peppered with stars (one of which is a new supernova), whose curving interior lanes were easily visible that dark, clear night; and M4, the Cat's Eye globular cluster, an amazing spangle of stars. Eventually, dawn brightened the sky and wiped out the galaxies. I put the rear seat of the Jeep down, closed the hatch, climbed in through the front door and went to sleep in the back. This morning at home I went through my Deep Space Imager manual and quickly resolved the problem. I had tried to set up the connection to the telescope by way of an entrance program Meade has, and get the Deep Space Imager going afterward. With the telescope powered up on my driveway and the IBM attached, I started the Deep Space Imager and set the com port through that program alone (on the box to indicate which port, you have to type, in my case, "Com2," with no sapce between the Com and the 2). I pressed the "connect" button and the mesage came up that it was ready to guide. ANYWAY -- next time, the Deep Space Imager should not be the cause of my frustration. -- Joe