[Chaos-l] First annual Astronomy Day completed

[mdlemon at lemons-bend.com]

Quoting Jon Stewart-Taylor <joncst at earthlink.net>:


> In the evening the clouds thinned enough that we could do pretty much
> continual moon observing, and got an hour or so of Saturn.  The
> planetarium steered the folks at the evening show to us, and that was
> the largest group we had at one time.
>
> All in all, not a bad day for a first try.  Next year, we'll improve  on it.

Agreed on my evening experience. I didn't get there until dusk but we  
had a stream of very interested folk come through we got to talk to  
and explain things. I even got to explain averted vision to folks I  
was trying to get to see the second moon of Saturn that was visible  
pretty much only by that means.

I'd definitely like to see this done at a park like Little River where  
lots of people are passing through we can reach out to.

We'll get this thing planned earlier next year. Kudos to Jon for  
pushing it through.

There was one young man and his girlfriend (wife?) who was very  
interested in everything and asked a lot of questions about what it  
took to get into the hobby. Several people also asked me about when  
the next observing was taking place, so there is outreach available  
folks.

MDL