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Wow.
Any other night they come out, look through our scopes, and leave. A few stay and ask questions.
Thursday night they came with lawn chairs and blankets spread on the ground, sat, stayed, took pictures with their cell phone cameras (or tried to), asked questions, and stayed for quite a while. We had club members with smart scopes, a dobsonion reflector, my 4 1/2” refractor, and the club’s 5” refractor (mounted on our 10” refractor) with a video camera hooked up to a 36” monitor so the observatory full of people could all watch without having to climb a ladder and look through an eyepiece.
We had a great night.> We’re looking forward to the June 2029 TOTAL lunar eclipse! The Moon will be going right through the center of the Earth’s shadow, so it should be totally blacked out for quite a while.
Gotta LOVE that syzygy!
I don’t thank you enough for your terrific posts MtnClimber, but I do appreciate all the great work you do.
Best to you, FRiend.