Amazon delivered my copy of Stephen Omeara's latest book " Southern Gems " today. Northern observers - read this book at your peril. It could make for the summer of your discontent. All this stuff is in my neck of the woods and I observed much of it at the South Pacific Star Party last weekend, but scanning through the book has me impatient for next new moon to come. Like I had not known that the central star in Planetary NGC 3918 was visible in big scopes with high power and good seeing. This book needs careful reading rather than scanning so I had better get back to it.