[Chaos-l] Jordan Lake observing session

[MIKE AND BOBI GALLAGHER]

I thought it was wonderful and much thanks to Morehead!! My guess would be
a good bit > 100 visitors. I had a line for quite a while to view the - one
day short of half - moon through my humble 120 mm refractor. So many
"ooohs" and "wows"!! I think it was Crater Theophilus, with its central
peak. Lots of folks could make out the central peak.
http://www.astrosurf.com/antilhue/moon-theophilus.htm

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Jayme Hanzak <spacenuut at gmail.com> wrote:

> We had a good group of folks maybe 100 folks come out to observe with us.
> The moon put on a good showing early on and we waited until it got dark
> enough to move to some of the fainter objects. I believe Joe Peditt or Mike
> Gallagher was able to bring in Mars.
>
> We were able to see M13, M57 and M31 before we were blindsided by clouds.
> Then it was sucker hole city.
>
> All in all it was a good night to show the public the wonders of the
> heavens. Then enthusiasm wasn't squelched by the person who said, "So why
> does anyone want to look into space. It's just a bunch of emptiness."
>
> Fortunately, everyone else was amazed and in awe.
>
> Jayme
>
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