My first session with a scope in close to two months, and I managed a sketch of NGC
253, ok, Rob? 
I'll post the thing in the next couple of days.
Copped a great transit of a Jovian moon. Both the eclipse shadow, and the moon were visible. Only because of the close-to-opposition position of Jupiter could this be possible. The eclipse shadow was decidedly "black", with the moon being a little lighter. Freaky coincidence as it was my last gasp view as the clouds started to roll in. I viewed this with my 17.5" scope. Conditions weren't fantastic, but I did manage the occasional clear view at 333X. The sighting occured between 11:40pm and 12:00am, eastern summer time.
Hickny was over at my place with his 13.1" scope, where we doing the deed. The transit shadow was clearly visible, but the moon was alot more difficult to spot.
I'll add a sketch of this sighting too.
As both Hickny's and mine big dobs are open truss scopes, I'll try using a solid tube 8" scope as a test scope as we had an aweful time trying to spot the Grus galaxy complex given in the Challenge. Last year, when my big scope was still a solid tube type, and with an 8" f/6 solid tube dob, these galaxies were quite easy to spot from my place one year ago. Have things gotten so bad in just one year here in Sydney?
Mental.