Hi Howard, It's always super satisfying when you finally see an object that you've been after for awhile, Sirius B is pretty easy for me living in Florida, even in my 15. But I have had that excitement you had with finally seeing the pup with another object. For 12yrs I have looked for but couldn't detect large planetary nebula EGB6 in Leo and finally last year on a night with very good seeing I saw a very faint crescent with a DGM filter, I almost passed out! I had to get a fellow observer to confirm it and I was on cloud nine all that night! Happy for you, Raul