Good grief, folks. Everybody's different. If you like to plan and have lists, that's great. If you like to stare at one thing all night, that's great. If you like to pop a top and just scan through the scope once in a while, that's great. No use in battering each other.

Enig--I know it's hard to convey what you feel sometimes over the internet on a keyboard. Folks can't hear the inflection as they would in your voice. I know you're just trying to tell what YOU feel, and so are we all. Sometimes it gets misinterpreted, especially since there are those who sometimes really are putting down someone else. Any of us is surely en garde for that to happen. Your tone did make it sound that way a little, but that's ok, you said you didn't mean to. No problem, in my opinion. But you also have said some things that I identify with, that being observing with the mind and heart.

Folks, I can plan and go hard at observing technically and in quantity when I feel like it. Or, like last night, I can find myself out there with a drink and smoke sitting by the scope looking for fireflies and only looking at something casually. Or, I can just scan and see what comes up. Maybe I'm thinking something, maybe not. But one thing's for sure, it's all ME, and ME only. I've been observing for 50 years, come this Christmas.

I'll be out tonight. A plan? Hm, dunno yet. Maybe, maybe not. And if it's not a good seeing night and I can't see much detail, that's ok, too--it's what has been granted to me, a gift. I like it any way it comes.

Ya'll be good.