Well, you win some and you lose some. After a spectacular first night of observing on Friday, October 1, the Astronomy magazine group got wiped out by an extremely late monsoonal flow at Granite Gap and Rancho Hidalgo, New Mexico. On Saturday the skies were cloudy, and on Sunday it rained — almost unheard of in October. We had to table many exotic objects on the list for the final two nights of viewing until the next trip.