Uncle Rod's Astro Blog

Thomas Wolfe said, among many other things, “You can’t go home again.” Is that true? Mostly, muchachos, but not always and not completely. If you’re a long-time reader of the Little Old Blog from Possum Swamp, you know our local star party, originally the Deep South Regional Star Gaze, and now the Deep South Star Gaze, was an every-year tradition with me and Miss Dorothy for over two decades. But then much changed. We retired, the pandemic came, and the star party moved to a new location. 

We visited its new venue, a private religious camp, for the 2023 edition, but above and beyond clouds causing a good, old-fashioned skunking on all three nights (which can happen anywhere, anytime), we were not happy with the facility and the food. Most of all, it just didn’t have that “Deep South feel” and Dorothy and I reluctantly decided we wouldn’t be back. 

Then, a few months ago, we got word from DSSG’s longtime director, Barry Simon, that our favorite star party would be moving back to its previous home, The Feliciana Retreat Center (FRC) in Norwood, Louisiana, a place we’d always liked, for the 2025 edition. Dorothy and I didn’t have to do any thinking; we sent in our registration and began looking forward to going home again. 

As the big day approached for us, November 20 (we’d attend Thursday - Sunday of the event), I began ruminating on the equipment I’d haul to the backwoods of Louisiana. Certainly, I’d take Zelda the 10-inch Dob, who is now my big gun, but what else? I’ve yet to get Suzie, my ZWO S50 smartscope under dark skies. And, hey, why not take the Unistellar 4-inch smartscope, too? I could do visual one night and devote the other two to the smarties. But then everything changed. 

Unpacking at the Lodge.

More properly, the weather forecasts changed. Predictions for the week before Thanksgiving, never good, were looking dire less than two weeks out. The closer we got, the less likely it appeared we would see anything at Deep South other than the undersides of clouds. I immediately eliminated the smartscopes from the gear loadout. If the weathermen were correct, there’d be no reason to bring them along. Shortly, I was even considering dropping back from the 10-inch Dob to the 6-inch one. Darnit. 

There was never any thought of us not going, though; even if all we could do was visit with our friends we would be there. Still, what I go to a star party for is deep sky wonders, and I was feeling disappointed. Then, a few days before the DSSG kickoff, the forecasts improved—a little. It appeared we’d get some observing in Thursday, little to none Friday, and maybe a lot Saturday. Whew! 

If I was gonna see anything, I’d need an observing list. That wasn’t difficult to compose. My current obsession, as you know, is (again) the Messiers. I don’t have a good southern horizon at Chaos Manor South, so I would concentrate on the southern “water” constellations, on the Ms in Pisces, Aquarius, Cetus, Capricornus, etc. 

With DSSG week almost here, it was time to round up all the old outdoor gear we’d used at so many star parties. First up, though, was a trip to Academy for a sleeping bag for Miss Dorothy, since hers had gone missing. We’d need bags since we weren't sure Feliciana would provide bedding, and it’s easier to bring a sleeping bag than fool with sheets, blankets, etc. Naturally, the Wednesday afternoon before Deep South, when it was time to load the 4Runner, Miss Van Pelt, my bag was also MIA. Luckily, it (and Dorothy’s old sleeping bag) turned up just before Unk headed back to Academy for another one. 

I also found the little black cat heater I used on chilly nights on the field years ago. I put it back away, though, since the weathermen were unanimous in saying we wouldn’t need it, Highs would be in the 80s and lows in the 60s except for Saturday, which might get into the 50s. The Coleman chairs were accounted for and so was the camp/observing table. While our picnic canopy, our EZ-Up, was looking a little time-worn, I judged it good enough for one more star party. I’d sprayed it with 3M waterproofing in 2023, and we’d never even set it up on the field that year. Now, I just had to get everything into the 4Runner... 

Back on the old field 8 years later!

While I’d be loading a modest amount of gear compared to what I used to lug down to Chiefland in the go-go days of the Herschel Project, I was out of practice getting everything into the truck and fumbled around for quite some time. I forgot the camp table had to go in first and on the bottom and wound up taking everything back out and reloading it all. So it goes; we were ready for Deep South. 

The trip itself was nothing. It’s just under three hours on I-10, I-12, I-55, and a short stretch on Louisiana back roads. It was entirely uneventful save for me not recognizing any of the scenery or landmarks along the way as we neared Norwood. I guess eight years’ absence will do that for you. Thanks to my trusty GPS, we found the FRC entrance without incident and were soon rolling onto the grounds. 

So, out on the field, what was the deal? Partly cloudy. Warm, very warm. A feel of possible bad weather in the air. You know what the whole thing reminded me of? Miss Dorothy’s first star party in 1994. While that was earlier in the year and at the event’s original home, Percy Quin State Park in Mississippi, the feel was eerily the same: Heat and humidity and maybe not much observing. The weather goobers were now warning of possible severe weather Friday, but it looked like the really bad stuff might bypass Norwood. 

Field set up was easy enough, since there wasn’t much to set up. The main task was getting the EZ-Up erected, but with Dorothy’s help, and the help of a fellow ham (I counted at least five fellow radio amateurs in attendance), we got the thing up before your old Uncle was quite drenched in sweat. It is nothing to set up a manual 10-inch Dobsonian (other than me struggling with the weight of Zelda’s steel tube). No computers, no cables, no batteries. With the chairs, table, and ice chest out of the truck, we motored up to the lodge to see what was what. 

My impressions of the FRC lodge nearly a decade down the road? The dining area looked as nice as ever, very nice, that is. Our small motel-type room? I didn’t notice many improvements/changes, but it was obvious the rooms were better maintained than they had been the last several years Deep South was at FRC (which is now billing itself as the “Feleciana Retreat and Conference Center). They had replaced the mattresses with better ones, and bedding was furnished, making our sleeping bags superfluous. All that remained was to hang out on the field with the old friends we’ve observed with for three decades and wait for supper at 4pm. How would that be? 

The answer was “better, much better.” The young couple doing the cooking and serving did a fine job, and Thursday’s BBQ chicken was some of the best star party food I have eaten in a while. One of the things that impelled Deep South to leave Feliciana in the first place was a decline in the quality and quantity of food. I deemed that fixed. Supper done, it was time to get a move on. With the temperature in the 80s, it didn’t feel like late November, but it was, and darkness would come not long after 6pm. 

The way the skies looked Thursday afternoon, I’d feared the night would be a complete washout (maybe literally), but as astronomical twilight came, the clouds scudded off, or at least a giant sucker hole grew until it encompassed the entire sky, giving us a couple of hours of cosmic voyaging. I’m afraid I spent most of that time fumbling and bumbling with the telescope, though. 

Your silly old Uncle was way out of practice using a dob under a dark sky. I had an awful hard time getting used to using the Rigel Quick Finder zero-power finder again. That wasn’t all. It seemed I had forgotten exactly how to work AstroHopper, the iPhone app that guided Zelda to her targets. I eventually got mostly in the groove with all that jazz and knocked a few list objects out, though. 

Note that on all three evenings I observed quite a few objects in addition to the list Messiers. But this is about the Messier Project and those are the objects Unk is gonna (mostly) tell you about… 

Images were shot with Suzie from Chaos Manor South Shortly after DSSG. 

M2 (Aquarius) 

Did not like the way the sky looked Thursday afternoon...

The second object in Messier’s catalog is one of the finest globular star clusters in the sky. It is somewhat diminished for mid-northern observers by its southerly declination down in Aquarius, but it is still quite a prize. At magnitude 6.5 and 16.0’ across, it begins to resolve in small telescopes, and in 8-inch and larger instruments it is a welter of tiny stars of Magnitude 13.1 and dimmer. With a Shapley-Sawyer Class of II, the core is quite concentrated.  

Despite swimming in and out of the haze that was beginning to cover the southern sky, M2 was well-resolved by Zelda, looking like a sparkling blue sapphire in the 13mm Ethos eyepiece at 96x. I hadn’t seen this glob, a favorite of mine in my old 12-inch telescope, looking this good in a long time. That haze no doubt reduced the cluster’s brightness, but it was still bright and prominent and well-resolved.

M2 is yet another “Messier object” not discovered by Charles Messier. Credit for that goes to. Jean Dominique Maraldi, who was out observing a comet with his buddy, Jaques Cassini, one nice French night in 1746. Charles is credited with the cluster’s rediscovery in 1760. You won’t be surprised to hear his tiny scope didn’t resolve any stars and is listed as a “nebula without stars.” In fact, nobody realized it was a star cluster till William and Caroline Herschel had a look at it some years later.   

Turning once again to my favorite Messier book, The Messier Album, John Mallas is enthusiastic about M2: “A beautiful object.” I can’t compare his observation to mine, since my instrument, Zelda, was so much larger than his 4-inch Unitron. He remarks his scope was only able to resolve “[A] few bright members across the nebulous image.” While Evered Kreimer’s photo wouldn’t be anything to write home about today, it was groundbreaking for the time. 

It's hard to get a bad image of M2!

The ZWO was faced with both light haze and a nearby Moon the week after DSSG, but she did an OK job with this magnificent cluster. 

M72 (Aquarius) 

The other Messier globular in Aquarius, M72, is that horse of a different color (the one you’ve heard tell about), being both considerably dimmer (magnitude 9.2) and smaller (6.6’) than monster M2. Discovered by Pierre Mechain, Messier observed the cluster the following year, 1781. 

Messier 72 is a small, subdued globular cluster and looked it on this evening. That doesn’t mean it was difficult to see, even in worsening conditions; it was obvious as a small fuzzball in the 27mm Panoptic when I put my eye to the eyepiece. The 8mm Ethos delivered a little resolution at 156x, but it was still more “grainy” than “resolved. The core of this Type IX cluster is quite loose but still fairly bright. 

This was not an easy object for John M’s 4-inch achromat. In his scope it was “A very small and nebulous patch of light” He was able to tell detect M72’s loose structure, however. 

It wasn't so much that this was a dimmer object, but that conditions were not right for imaging. Miss S50 and I went after M72 anyway, and at least we got a little "cosmic postcard, " a memory of a night under the stars, for our efforts

Sadly, that was it for list-objects on Thursday evening. The southern area of the sky was out of action by 7pm. I spent the remainder of the night looking at some pretty stuff (the Veil was decent, and M15 was a mindblower at high power) before retiring to the lodge room just before 9 for YouTube videos and sarsaparillas. 

Then came Friday morning. How would breakfast be? Good. Very good and lots of it. The star of the show was the biscuits and sausage gravy. There was more—eggs, grits, sausage--but that was just the supporting cast for Unk. Excellent. 

Suzie's M52.

Sometimes star party days go slowly, but I found things to do on Friday. I sat in the dining hall with the MacBook Air, making notes on my observations, and…installing a new astronomy program. Unk has SkySafari Pro 7 on his iPhone and loves it. However, when I opened the program on the Mac I realized I was still on 6. I was able to download 7 for free and was excited to have the new one on the MacBook. 

Well, until I tried it. Simulation Curriculum, the makers, didn’t do a good job porting it from the iPad to the Apple Silicon Macs. Zooming is broken. Oh, you can zoom, but you have to use buttons. For me, zooming with the mouse/trackpad is erratic at best. Luckily, 6 is still on the Mac and that is what I will use. Maybe they’ll fix 7, but after this long, I doubt it. 

Following a great supper of Thanksgiving ham, dressing, and all the fixings, Friday night started out promising, but clouds began rolling in not long after dark. The southern constellations were soon gone, but the north-northeast was clear for a while, and that’s where me and Zelda went. Starting with a look at a nice open cluster... 

M52 (Cassiopeia) 

Finally a Messier Object discovered by Messier! He spotted this galactic cluster floating along the Cassiopeia Milky Way in 1774. At Magnitude 7.7 this magnitude 6.9, 15.0’ diameter open cluster is trivial for binoculars or very small telescopes. 

M52 was certainly impressive in Zelda… I hadn’t expected too much on this increasingly punk night, but it was outstanding, looking more like a loose globular cluster than a galactic cluster. A bright star on the edge of the cluster’s densest section made it distinctive. 

Mallas didn’t see much here with his Unitron. Other than that single bright star, the 4-inch didn’t resolve M55 or even make it look grainy. I wonder if John observed this one on a poorer night, since it seems to me I’ve had some good looks at it and considerable resolution with 4-inch telescopes. 

Most open clusters aren't a challenge for the ZWO. Suze delivered a nice portrait of this one with only five minutes of exposure. 

I hoped for clearing, but as 9pm came, the sky got worse. I did manage two more deep sky objects, though, the stars of our 1994 Deep South: 

M74 (Pisces) 

Suzie did a nice job on the Phantom given the conditions

Numero uno was the Phantom galaxy in Pisces, M74, which was first spotted by Pierre Mechain in September of 1780. Messier was able to confirm the observation a few weeks later, which I find impressive. His scope was tiny, and this is the second toughest Messier (after M101). Why? It’s not terrifically dim at magnitude 9.4, but it is large, 10.5’ across, and the light of this face-on Sc galaxy is badly spread-out, giving it a surface brightness of 14.1. It is an object for 10-inch and larger scopes under dark and steady skies. I’ve had the best success with it when the seeing is excellent. 

As I’ve written many a time, the best look I have ever had of M74 was that fall of ’94 at Deep South with Betsy, my old 12-inch Dob (then in her original Meade Sonotube). This night? I’d be hard put to say M74 looked any worse. Conditions on both nights were similar, including both slightly reduced transparency and steady seeing. When AstroHopper told me I was there, the galaxy was immediately obvious in the 27mm Panoptic eyepiece. Best views were in the Happy Hand Grenade (Zhumell/TMB) 16mm 100° (78x) and the 13mm Ethos, both of which delivered mucho spiral structure. My visit to the star party this year was worth it just for this one observation. 

Unsurprisingly, John Mallas found Messier 74 a difficult object indeed for his long focal length Unitron refractor (he notes it was more noticeable in his 40mm finder). Be that as it may, his drawing with the 4-inch indicates he was seeing some spiral structure, quite a feat. Kreimer’s black and white (Tri-X) photo is lovely, and competitive with modern pictures.   

Little Suzie, the SeeStar S50, had to go after the Phantom Galaxy on yet another humid night. While it’s not the best image she’s ever done, she had no problem picking up the spiral arms (and a piece of photobombing space junk). I’m frankly amazed at what she did from my bright backyard. 

M33 (Triangulum) 

It’s difficult to say who originally discovered Messier 33, since it is (barely) a naked eye object at magnitude 5.7—I’ve certainly never seen it without optical aid. What is certain is that Messier spotted it in 1764.  Its large size, 68.7’ x 41.5’ means that despite its bright magnitude, its surface brightness is relatively low, and it’s not that easy to spot the multiple spiral arms of this near face-on SA galaxy. 

The Triangulum Galaxy isn’t a water dweller but was in the clear and was the other star of 1994. It was very good, with its spiral arms amazingly evident—as in “slapped me in the face” evident. I hunted around a bit before I saw the galaxy’s huge emission nebula, NGC 604, but once I oriented myself, there it was. Was it quite as starkly visible as in 1994, when I had two more inches of aperture, a more transparent sky, and younger eyes? No, but it was easy, nevertheless.  One last look and M33 faded out as clouds enveloped the sky. 

You won’t be surprised to hear Mallas’ small, slow achromat had a tough time with M33. This is just not an object for narrow field scopes (and eyepieces): “[It] is very faint and difficult in the 4-inch f/15 refractor. Instruments with smaller focal ratios will do much better.” He mentions a bright central region with nebulous patches around it and that is it. 

Suzie? This is a bit on the large side for her (though I could use mosaic mode if I had the patience for that), but it’s not an object that gives her trouble. 

Saturday 

Zelda hoping for Starlight Saturday afternoon...

We had high hopes for Saturday. The usual weather sources on the web (the FRC now has good Internet at the lodge thanks to Starlink) said it might be a good night. Hell, it might even be a long night. Astrospheric pronounced, “OK at sundown but getting better after 8pm local time.” I was skeptical. There wasn’t the feel of a front passage, not a barreling passage like in 1994, anyway. So far, it was more clouds and ever-higher humidity. 

The sky did look pretty good just before astronomical twilight. Then, as I sat out on the field with Len and Annette Philpot, a bank of low, dark clouds drifted in from the south and stayed for a while. They did move off when darkness arrived, but I was nervous that this was a harbinger of things to come… 

Long night? No. In the end, we got maybe 90 minutes of fruitful observing. The Milky Way was visible, but not as bright as it is at this site on a truly good evening, and deep sky objects of all types were passable but subdued. I had the feeling conditions might get worse rather than better after 8pm, contrary to what Astrospheric said, so I didn’t waste any time ticking the remaining water Ms off my list on SkySafari. Since my phone was dedicated to AstroHopper, I had the Mac on the field under the canopy. It was a real help at times. With clouds floating around, out of practice visual observer me sometimes lost his way among partially obscured constellations. SkySafari’s beautiful charts saved me every time. 

The night’s haul? Modest, but not bad for an hour and a half with me giving each object sufficient attention: 

M73 (Aquarius) 

Chuck Messier spotted this asterism in 1780 and thought he saw nebulosity along with four stars. Herschel, however, observed the cluster and found absolutely no trace of the nebulosity Messier thought he’d seen. It was long thought that M73 was a galactic cluster, but spectroscopic studies done a couple of decades ago revealed the four stars are at drastically different distances from Earth. 

This little group of stars isn’t a cluster, but it’s an M anyway. I’d somehow passed it by on the previous two evenings and wanted to get it in the log, lackluster as it is. What you have here is an asterism of four somewhat prominent stars of magnitude 10 – 12 that cover an area of 9.0’. 

All Mr. Mallas has to say about M73’s appearance is, “Messier’s description matches what was seen in the 4-inch. Moderate magnification shows the quartet centered in the photograph.” In other words, “Ho-hum,” which is my reaction as well.

This was obviously nothing for Miss Suze, who showed four stars in a backwards checkmark shape in a short exposure. It doesn't look much different from the shot in The Messier Album.

M30 (Capricornus) 

This Shapley-Sawyer Class V globular cluster was discovered by Messier in the summer of 1764. Like the other globs he observed, it was not known to be a star cluster until William Herschel observed it. At magnitude 6.9, and a size of 12.0’, it’s not difficult for smaller scopes, though they may need dark skies to deliver much resolution. 

M30, which I call “The Goat Cluster,” is one of my favorites, mainly for a curious feature, two streams of stars on the southeastern side of the cluster. More prominent visually than in photos, they suggest the horns of a goat, fitting for a cluster in the Sea Goat. They were visible on this night in the 13mm Ethos but were not as prominent as usual. For one thing, Capricornus was beginning to descend into the west, and for another, the haze was thicker than ever.   

While Mallas’ Unitron didn’t pick up many stars, he still called this “A splendid object even in small apertures.” He also notes the cluster’s “unusual” appearance, which I take to me the star streams mentioned above. Kreimer’s photo shows the “goat horns” remarkably well. 

Despite conditions, the girl did a nice job on the Goat, her image showing the horns clearly. 

Our final night started out promisingly--but didn't stay that way.

M77 (Cetus) 

Prolific observer Pierre Mechain ran across this magnitude 8.9 SA galaxy in 1780. Of course, he didn’t know anything about galaxies and told His friend Charles he had discovered a nebula down in Cetus. This small (7.1’) object is easy to see thanks to its intensely bright center. M77 is known to be an active Seyfert galaxy and a strong radio source (Cetus A). It is also on Halton Arp’s list of peculiar galaxies. 

Cetus A has never been a challenge in any scope for me. This was one of the few that I could see easily with my 4-inch f/10 Newtonian from the backyard of the old Chaos Manor South downtown. On this evening? Bright. Fascinating. What you see is a large, nebulous envelope surrounding a bright central region with a disk and spiral arms. I bumped up the power to over 200x with the 5.7mm ES eyepiece in hopes of seeing that spiral structure, and I did get a glimpse or two of it on a night that was winding down. 

Mallas was impressed with M77, calling it “One of the best objects for viewing in small apertures.” Not surprisingly, the Unitron didn’t show any spiral features, He does, however, seem to see that the central area of Cetus A is different from that of other galaxies. 

The problem with M77 for the smartscope is that it's a little small, and there is a limit to the central detail you can expect.

M75 (Sagittarius) 

It’s not clear whether this one should be credited to Mechain or Messier. It is known that Charles at least confirmed Mechain’s observation in October of 1780. Once again, it was The Man, William Herschel, who first resolved this Magnitude 8.6 cluster. How to describe this glob? Tight, small, relatively bright. It’s a Shapley-Sawyer Type I, the most highly concentrated class. At only 6.8’ across, it is easy to see. 

I got to this one a little late; it was low enough that it wasn’t quite as bright as it should have been in a 10-inch telescope. Which doesn’t mean it wasn’t prominent and easy—it was. However, what I saw was nothing more than a grainy fuzzball with a reasonably bright core. 

His 4-inch presented John Mallas with an M55 that was just a nebulous ball with a bright core. In other words, not much different from what I saw in my 10-inch. I was, however, able to see a grainy texture suggesting resolution, which Mallas didn’t detect in his 4-inch. 

Small, low, on the dim side. Well, at least Suze and I got something. 

And then more clouds came. I waited ‘em out, and they began to thin (some) around 9pm, but only some. Astrospheric had begun talking about “mist,” and it now looked to me as if the clouds hadn’t really left; they had just reduced their altitude. As a check, I sent Zelda to NGC 891, the famous edge-on galaxy in Andromeda. Initially, I thought Astro-hopper had missed. Finally, I spotted a dim, slightly elongated glow in the field. I’ve seen this galaxy better with an 8-inch SCT. NGC 7331 was about the same, there, but lackluster. I could see it with fair ease, but the “deer” accompanying the Deer Lick Galaxy, the small galaxies in the field, were invisible. 

Time to throw the big switch? Nope… I wanted to try out my wonderful prize! Your aged Uncle, who rarely wins anything astronomical, had won a TeleVue eyepiece at the Saturday raffle drawing! And a very special (and specialized) TeleVue it was, the 55mm Plössl. This is an eyepiece I’ve thought about buying for years, but I have always hesitated. Mainly thanks to that enormous exit pupil, which is a bit large even for my SCTs. I had one now, though, and I was going to try it out on an f/5 telescope. 

M45 (Taurus) 

Wow! I won something!

Messier placed this galactic cluster in his list, but it had, of course been known since time immemorial—Homer mentions it. The Seven Sisters compose an enormous open cluster—the sisters are only a central region, and they encompass two full degrees of sky. These bright young stars shine with a combined magnitude of 1.5.  In former times the blue nebulosity associated with them was thought to be remnants of the gas that formed cluster the cluster. Then, someone mentioned the color, blue, which is indicative of reflection nebulosity, not hydrogen that forms stars. The Merope Nebula is merely dust with the consistency of cigarette smoke that the cluster is drifting through. 

First object for the 55mm? Why M45, of course. It was quite something to encompass most of the Pleiads in the field of a 10-inch telescope. Exit pupil, exit schmupil; I even convinced myself I saw a trace of the Merope Nebula (uh-huh). 

John has a lot to say about the Pleiades, but mostly background and technical information as it was known well nearly 60 years ago. His big Unitron was, after all, a very narrow instrument for this object. He does tell us of seeing the Merope Nebula with his scope from the dark skies of Arizona, though, which is a master class observation. 

I needed to post this article before I was able to give Suzie a shot at M45, but in the past she’s done a good job on the Daughters of Atlas. 

Saturn 

You can bet I visited Saturn before giving up the ship. With his rings near edge-on, some would say he isn’t quite his normal spectacular self. He is to me. This is the way I saw Saturn with a telescope for the first time, with my Palomar Junior in 1966. On this night, seeing was good; the shadow of the rings across the disk razor sharp in my 4.7mm Explore Scientific 82° ocular (265x). Coolest thing? Little Enceladus was visible just above the plane of the rings and almost seeming to touch them. 

Fun is fun but done is done. The sky didn’t slam shut; it just faded away as it got damper and damper. I covered the faithful Miss Zelda and headed for the Lodge. I was sad not to be able obey the rule my old friend, Pat, and I established many a long year ago, “No going to bed before M42 is up high enough to fool with,” but there was nothing for it. Shining my flashlight into the air produced a cone that looked like the Bat Signal. 

Sunday morning, Dorothy and I departed before breakfast, wanting to get home and check on the cats. It wasn’t pleasant loading sopping wet gear—it seemed more like the product of a downpour than a dew fall—but our simple field setup meant we were on the road in record time. 

The verdict on DSSG 2025? Attendance was 62, nowhere near what it was in the golden age of the 90s - 2000s but improved over the last years at its previous location. I predict the Deep South Star Gaze is on the way back up and has many more good years ahead of it. Our personal experience? Despite the weather, it was just great, and we plan to be back for 2026, I am also hoping to be at the spring edition of the star party, the 2026 Spring Scrimmage, which will also be held at Feliciana again.

Totals:  17 Down 93 to go…

Nota Bene:  You can see many more pictures in the DSSG 25 Photo Album on Unk's Facebook Page...