Site 2: Lehi, Utah
	On July 25th, we returned to Russ' house in Lehi, UT [40d22m53s N 111d52m35s W Alt.4518']. (By the way, Russ' wife Rita is my wife's sister.) We were told that there hadn't been a cloud in the sky there while we were gone, that figures. It was overcast during the afternoon, of course, but by 9pm the skies were beginning to clear. We had been planning on travelling away from town, but with the prospects of a clear noght in doubt, I decided to set up in the backyard. It is slightly darker in his yard then it is at Robert Moses. By 10, we were looking at Jupiter. Since we were in the yard, we had 8 observers, all family. The seeing was very poor and Jupiter could not take more that 95x without beginning to tremble. That was fine with everyone else, most of which had not seen it "live" before. The bands and the polar shading were very obvious. We also observed M13, and the Ring Nebula. M13 looked about the same as it does in a 5" at RMSP, but the Ring seemed to have a much sharper inner circle. Arond 10:30 the clouds started rolling in again, but were patchy instead of overcast, but there was lightning as I was breaking down. We also spotted an artificial satellite at 10:42, due east at approximately 60 degrees altitude. Research after the fact showed it to be Envisat, a French Earth Monitoring satellite. Since Russ was interested, we also did the "How Far is Far Tour" that is programmed into the Autostar controller
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