Today was a busy day. We had breakfast at the hotel. It was good food. After we ate there we came to the canyon school to study asteroids with John. He put together a really neat project in which we track an asteroid over the course of a few days and measure its orbit, or, specifically, the radius thereof. He explained the procedure for doing it. It involves some interesting math, but we can get it done. We also get to use lots of tables and John's laptop to make sure that we're really tracking the right asteroid. The asteroid that we're going to look at is 12 Victoria. John said that there is something interesting about the name, but I couldn't find anything when I searched briefly on the internet. It is sort of in the area of 17 hrs, -14.5 degrees if anyone wants to look. We went to De Colores for lunch and then came back and did more asteroid stuff, mainly trying to figure out exactly where we ought to look. We went after dinner to a lecture on black holes by this guy Bill Priedhorsky. He taught us a lot, but he said that there was a lot that remained unknown about black holes and neutron stars. After the lecture we went up to Fenton Hill for the first time. Boy was it bright! The sky there was unbelievably clear. You could see a ton of stars. By that I mean a ton. By that I mean a ton. By that I mean a TON! We set up three telescopes: the 7" Maksutov, the 12" Schmidt-Cassegrain, and some crusty 8" telescope built by Celestron. That one is not fun to use, but the others are great. I saw tons of Ms and looked at the Milky Way. I also made two sketches of the area where 12 Victoria should have been, but one got lost. I looked at Mars for a while; I could see the polar cap and a little dark area. I also looked at the moon throught the telescope. I decided only to look at the edge of it; it's really bright, especially when your eyes are dark-adapted. Jesse and I also caught some moths in the ops building and threw them at Ge. He is afraid of moths. I don't get it; he's from Minnesota, the land of 10000 lakes. It's not as if there is a shortage of bugs there. Anyway, tomorrow we'll see about the asteroid; we also got some pictures of the area from the RAPTOR system that looks for optical counterparts to gamma ray bursts. It's a CCD camera.