[Chaos-l] Little River Observing

[Jayme Hanzak]

Well, being one that doesn't keep up with my emails like I should, I missed the cancellation email 
at Little River. Fortunately I wasn't the only one. 
  
I arrived at Little River a little after 8pm and found the gates were locked. A future member of CHAOS 
was there already and he thought that he had the wrong day. I told him wasn't wrong, but maybe it had 
been cancelled. 
  
Sure enough, when I checked my email finally and  saw that it had been cancelled. We sat and talked about 
the club with my car sitting in the middle of the road. Well the next thing we know, we have two vans loaded 
with people pulling into the entrance. Then another car and another. Bill and I decided to pull out the telescopes 
and show folks Venus, Mars and Saturn. Randy showed up and joined us. 
  
In all about 30 people showed up and we treated them to the planets. We had a streetlight and the neighbors 
insecurity lighting to contend with so that made it difficult to find some deepsky objects. 
  
The people there were awesome. They had so many questions and were blown away by Saturn, as usual. We showed 
Venus,Venus. That is a young lady named Venus. We met Sarah from Main, who belongs to a New England astronomy 
club. She wanted to come to the Star Party but missed the registration dead line. She said she would be there next year. 
Sarah was an added blessing. She took people on a constellation tour and also managed the traffic situation. 
  
  
So a s a non-event, tonght was a hug e success. Also if you want to smash the ice, pull out the telescope, people start talking. 

We had clear skies, 
  
Jayme Hanzak 
CHAOS President 

CHAOS 
P.O. Box 3001 
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-0842 
http://www.rtpnet.org/chaos/ 

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