Several of us believed the National Weather Service's forecast for "mostly clear" on Friday night, but it turned out to be "mostly cloudy" instead. About to call it a night at 12:30 with no apparent hope of clearing, Quinn informed me that Provo Canyon was closed. Ugh. Wondering what to do, I noticed the sky starting to clear (finally). It opened up for about 2 hours, from 1am to 3am, and I managed to get the last 6 of my summer Herschel-400 objects, all open clusters in the small constellation of Vulpecula. Two of the 6 clusters I observed were especially lovely. NGC 6802 is a small rectangular patch of faint stars that fade to "nebulosity" that I found very lovely in the 16-inch. And NGC 6940 is a spectacular (and I'm guessing often overlooked) open cluster that filled the eyepiece (115x) with over 100 stars, and would probably be wonderful in any aperture scope. All the clusters are in very rich milky way star fields. Good company and some new friends made it worthwhile in spite of the clouds. I just need to remember to bring a pillow and blanket in the future... Rich __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com