I went out to the Flatin Farm last night, a crazy night for weather. From 7:30 to 9 it was so warm and humid and cloudy that I thought, "what the heck did I come out here for?"
Then 'POOF', it cleared up and from 9 to 11 it wasn't bad, almost good! The NE portion of the sky was my target grounds. M33, M31 and satellites, Gamma Andromeda, M34, Perseus Double Cluster, M45, Alpha Persei association, and Algol.
When Stup got out there at 11, we went after the California Nebula near Zeta Perseii, found the area that it was in, but didn't have a decent enough filter to see it well. We could "see" it, but a novice wouldn't have had a clue.
Still fun though. By 1 a.m. the sky was the property of the clouds. Oh well. Still sort of AGNFA.