[Chaos-l] Cornwallis Hills public session report

[Peter Smith]

Just an additional comment on last night.  As Jon said, the conditions made
it pretty abysmal as an observing session, but the fact that there were so
many young kids and there parents getting their first opportunity to look at
the moon and Jupiter through a scope made it a rewarding and  worthwhile
effort.

Peter

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From: chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jon
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 11:54 PM
To: Stewart-Taylor, Jon
Cc: Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society
Subject: [Chaos-l] Cornwallis Hills public session report

Hi all.  I'm growing rather discouraged with both the Clear Sky Clock 
and the Weather Underground: neither of them seem to be able to handle 
the local Carolina August observing weather.

It was anything but clear tonight.  In spite of that, Peter, Margareta, 
and i set up scopes and hosted a fair crowd of folks.  Observing 
targets were Jupiter, the moon, assorted multiple stars, and M13.  
Between the humidity and the streetlight, not much else _was_ 
observable.

Despite that i had a pretty good time showing people stuff, talking 
about what a meteor show is and why we're having one tonight, and so 
on.  Several people brought newly-purchased scopes to set up, and i was 
able to help a couple of them with adjustments, finder alignment and so 
on.

As an observing session it was a washout, but for a public event it 
wasn't bad.  Thanks to Peter for bringing another scope and helping out.

J.

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