[Chaos-l] Observing sessions

[mdlemon at lemons-bend.com]

Quoting Jayme Hanzak <jhanzak at unctv.org>:

> Little River Park in North Durham had about 75 folks show up. This   
> was the second clear night in a row for Little River. Mike Lemon,   
> the Morehead gang and a couple from Oxford had their hands full   
> showing the wonders of the universe to eager crowd. We also watched   
> as the ISS came over the horizon and faded into the Earths shadow.   
> For most of the folks there, this was their first time to see the   
> space station.

Just to add some interesting notes....

We were very, very busy. I setup first down towards the picnic shelter  
and for some reason all the Morehead crew setup way up towards the  
parking lot. So it started slow for me then wham!! Here they came. I  
was mostly on the Orion Nebula but towards the end I did put in the  
high mag eyepiece and show some Saturn. Also found out that the  
Pleiades (another often requested one as it was right above the moon)  
looks very nice in my finder scope. :)

I don't know about yall but I was getting hounded pretty good by some  
folks wanting to know what just about everything in the sky was.  
Tested my knowledge pretty sorely. Fortunately, the winter sky is the  
one I know best. If it had been summer....yikes. :)

Really wish I had picked out a globular from my sky charts to show.  
Had a long chat about clusters with a couple guys. Would have been  
nice to show that one.

And Jayme, I owe you a couple AAs. Haven't forgotten.

Mike Lemon