Well, the weather reports offered that it was supposed to be nice so John Hales and I headed to Chews Ridge. He wanted to try his new Astro-Physics 1200 mount and I wanted to try my new SBIG ST4 guider. We arrived Thursday afternoon and were greeted by rather cool temperatures and wind. In fact, the wind was roaring so hard Thursday night that I was unable to do a drift alignment with the NGT-18. Photography, of course, was out of the question. So I decided to spend some time looking at galaxies. NGC 4015, at magnitude 14.2 showed no detail with a 10.5mm Tele View Plossl (195X). NGC 4022 and 4023 were very small and dim. However, NGC 4032 at magnitude 12.8 showed a difference in texture in the central portion. NGC 4064 was irregular in shape with some internal texture. I thought I saw what looked like a smaller diffuse patch slightly above this object. However, a check of The Sky astronomy program showed nothing near this object. I wonder if I was seeing a portion of a spiral arm or dust lane. By the time we turned in it was 36 degrees (yes, this is May)!!! Friday dawned bright and cool so our hopes were high that we might actually see something. Our luck would hold true to form: it was cloudy Friday night! The thin cirrus clouds prevented doing any real astronomy. I was able to finish my drift alignment so if it did clear up, I would be able to take some pictures. Saturday was a fine day. The sun was shining brightly, the wind had died down to an acceptable level, and it was warming up! However, late in the afternoon the fog had decided to pay us a visit. That's right, fog at 5000'! However, the fog dropped about an hour later. As soon as the sun went down it began to get dark. Not just dark dark, but really dark. The fog was covering Salinas and all of the other towns around. It was going to be a superb night! Using my limiting magnitude chart I was able to see a star of magnitude 6.2 (with averted vision) in Ursa Minor. After some time (and John's help) I was able to get the tracker up and running (I hope). I was able to shoot M51, M17, and M16. During exposures I was just sitting staring up at the sky or pestering John. It was a superb night and I finally fell asleep as the eastern sky was brightening.