Great job Dean. I was out for 5 hours (well the scope was out, I was in) both Friday and Saturday nights. I had some overlap with Dean in Ursa Major with 4088 and its neighbors; 4088 has odd barred spiral arms. Both nights I was broadcasting video images through NightSkiesNetwork. On Friday I walked through the Virgo cluster stopping and pausing at some dozen faint galaxies in the Markanian chain. I then took requests from the NSN audience which swung us to M99, seeing brilliant spiral arms (aka Katherine's Wheel). Saw a little known but pretty planetary nebula NGC 1501 in Camelopardalis. Had good looks at M51/101, and then further requests from NSN took us to the Owl and nearby M108 galaxy. Looked at the structure in M63 (Sunflower) and M64 (Black Eye) galaxies.
Later in the night we looked at the galaxy cluster Hickman 68, which gave a view of 5 galaxies in one field – NGC 5350,3,4,5, and 8.
Around 3am M3 was up, and it was night to get a peak at summer's upcoming collection of globs. Ended with a shot at the Needle galaxy 4565. Had viewers from all over including Iowa, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Romania!
I ordered a new adapter for the Mallicam on the Obsession 18 that allows more inward focus travel which lets me add the maximum adjustment of focal reducers to bring the f4.5 to an f2.5! This increases my field of view from 13 arcseconds to about 22. Very nice to get the entire M101 galaxy in the frame. Friday night was so nice here that despite the dob being out for 6 hours, there was no frost or moisture anywhere on the scope. It was tracking well and the skies were nearly as good as they get around here!