I missed last month's dark night on account of the Hawai'i trip. Tonight was sub-excellent. There were significant clouds moving through and we really only had one clear window that moved from east to west. I did manage to see the Trapezium, Saturn, Mars, and the Merope Nebula over the course of a brief 35 minute observation. One of the other guys had brought his binocular viewer along, which was nice except that it required independant focus on each of the eyepieces and someone kept adjusting one of the eyes all wonky so that whenever I would get a turn I would be seeing double and had to re-adjust.