I got out last night for 3 and a half hours. Steve Remick and DuWayne Oakes (Dugan) joined in to see the pass of the ISS right on schedule like Jeff posted. However, the pass was too high at the Flatin Farm hayfield to see both the space station and Saturn. Steve, with his wonderful 8" Orion Dobsonian (the best starter scope on the market) did catch Saturn in his finderscope a few times and saw it very briefly
once through the big FOV.
We went after M51 and NGC 5195. I coached him onto how to find that and he realized that some galaxies look stellar, but with a bit of nebulousity around them. Tonight he is going down to the FFH to try to pick up M97, the Owl Nebula and M108 in Ursa Major. I hope to pick up the last 6 for the Herschel 400.
I finished the night by getting my "challenge" object for the Globular Clusters program, NGC 5053. There was a lot of careful starhopping there, but I found it and had to use averted vision to really see it. I could see it intermittenly using direct vision but it would always disappear after a second or two. For any of you with an 8" scope, this is a very difficult but doable object. If it was not for M53 nearby, it would be a VERY hard object to find.
Let me know if you saw the ISS and Saturn!