Well, I need to do that more often! Setup the TV85 on telepod for about a one hour cool down. Went out around 10:00 p.m. for some planetary viewing. FYI, the most comfortable power I can use with the telepod (a non-motorized alt-az mount) is about 120x. Still enough to enjoy some nice planetary images. First was Saturn. Nice as always, Cassini evident. Jupiter, now I thought the Great Pale spot may have either just transited or was about to transit. I wanted to report here before I looked it up. Rodger, did you image Jupiter? It was either the GRS or a very large festoon. Not much color at all, but it seemed very large on the northern equitorial belt. Great views of Jupiter. I really like the TV85. Crisp is all I can say. For some deep sky stuff I went to a TV 14mm Radian on a 600mm focal length scope. M42 and M43 with nebulosity easily spotted in NGC 1977. Look for it around the bright stars 42 and 45 Orionis. I surfed a bit. Tried to see the Flame, but really could not convince myself I was seeing it. Went surfing for M46/47 in Canis Major. I really had forgotten where these were. I cannot believe the contrast in this scope. I am surfing the sky and I can easily see subtle contrast differences in the Milky Way with dark lanes popping out everywhere. I never did find M46/47. Got cold. My tube started to frost over. It is one of those bone-chilling colds. A great amount of moisture near the ground. A great astronomical snack on a cold winter's night. Oh man, that is where M46/47 is (as I look at The Sky software). I thought it was up above Sirius at this time of night. It is a little southeast. Oh, well. I know now. Jeff Ball