Hi All,
Thanks guys.
Contrary to what might appear (sometimes) from my observing posts here, I don't just look at the tiny, the (nearly) invisible and the obscure. I spend at least as much time observing bright objects -- it's just that I've already "recorded" virtually all the bright ones in moderate and large apertures and when I see them for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th or nth time I don't do it all again -- at least without a reason.
In this case I'd never recorded these important G.Cs in the larger aperture, where they look so much more detailed and resolved, so I thought I'd better -- just in case I need the notes for later on.
To you "Mexicans", it won't stay cloudy forever -- don't give up. I remember a spell here in Sydney back in 1994 or 1995 (??) when we went for about 8 months with virtually unbroken overcast at night, almost every night. I even started looking at (gasp) the Moon (of course it was clear around full moon -- nearly always is). Anything, anything to cure my deprivation of photons.
Best,
Les D