This is a little late, 🙂 I did go out to Keller on Saturday. When I got there, Jim and Jake were there. Jake was just checking out Keller to find it in the daylight. He will probably come out again some time in the future or perhaps out to Eagle Bluff. Saturday, he had to take the kids home and put them to bed, so he just scouted out Keller. 🙂
There were some clouds about and more came in while Jim and I waited for it to get dark. We did get some looks at Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter while it was getting dark and cloudier. The east was the clearest. We did look at a few things, Ring and Hercules for two. Quite a few clouds in the west. Before it got dark, the one set of clouds looked a lot like a spiral galaxy. I thought perhaps we had gone a few billion years in the future and Andromeda was bearing down on us. 🙂
Anyway, things just weren't looking very good. Jim packed up and I was slowly starting to put stuff away. It was around 10:30. Jim left, but then Mr. Gorp and Astromom showed up right behind him. I was thinking they had looked at the sky and decided not to come, but… here they were! I told Chris and Julie things were not that good. We talked for awhile and then just like that things started to clear up so they got their scope out. Glad they showed up as then I stayed and was able to get in some good observing. Where the sky cleared up, it was nice and crisp and clear. Early in the evening, there was no such thing as Leo, too cloudy in the west.. All of sudden, there was Leo strolling across the western savanna and I was even able to get a good look at the Leo Triplet, nice. Quite the turn around. Looked at a few goodies, M57 and M13 again, much better now that it was darker and clearer. M4, M5, M51, M81, M82. Albireo, Leo Triplet. Perhaps more that I can no longer remember. Turned out to be pretty good, but then it did start to cloud up again after midnight and we started packing up. I left around 12:30. Nice night. If you can get out, isn't it always AGNFA? 🙂