Yipes! For a minute when I saw that Subject line, I said "Uh-oh..." ;> Thanks for the Hale-Bopp report, JCM! I'm sure many of us Northerners during this Perseid rush had forgotten all about that amazing little comet! Nice to know there's clear sky somewhere on the globe, too. :) Suffice it to say, I missed another night of multitudinous PERs thanks to weather. Soggy Lew