A lot of people showed up at Fremont peak Sunday for the eclipse and H-B. We all set up at the Coulter area. The place was absolutely jammed. Then lots of passers-by showed up. It was more than the usual summer crowd.

The weather was not ideal, lots of scattered high cloudls. Hale-Bopp was pretty good but no where near as good as it has been in the morning. Still its getting brighter and those hoods or arcs or whatever thay are looks spectacular. It was easy to see them extending 180 degrees around the anti-tail side of the nuclear condensation. I thought I could see them going all the way around in brief moments of clarity, but I wasn't sure. Jay and Akkana reported similar uncertainty.

At the deepest point of the eclipse the sky got dark enough to see the Milky Way. But by that time the comet was deep in the muck.

Mars is nice now, though. Lots of detail visisble. It was interesting comparing the views in Rich's 5" MegaBuck refractor with my 12" LX200. His was clearly superior but mostly, I think, because of the mount, not the optics.

All in all a nice evening.