Really a great event last night… there were about 20 in attendance…

We started off with a greeting and introduction in the classroom and an outline of how the short event would go… and then a Q&A session…

Then we went outside for a quick tour of the outer facility… a limited tour of the sky (the moon was a hindrance pf course)… a demo of the roll of roof structure and the 20″ Newt…

Then back to the classroom for more Q&A… the moon presentation was played followed by additional Q&A… then into the dome…

We talked about the dome and scope… talked about the automation… then all were able to get great views thru the 14″ SCT of Jupiter, its bands, and 4 moons… Saturn, its rings and a moon or two… and a very nice clear and detailed moon. We were also able to get a pretty fair view of M13…

We talked a bit about light pollution… and gave a number of hand outs on the subject as well as a map of the moon showing the various seas and the Apollo landing sites…

All in all it was an excellent outing… thank you to the two troup 46’s and to Mike D, Sam S, and Rolando G for helping out…

Im hopping to get a few decent pics of the event posted yet…

Jeff