As far as the NWFAA is concerned, the first summer camp held by the UUFEC was a great success. Although the weather tried mightily to interfere, all the summer campers and counselors got the chance to view the Sun in every view that we could muster. Dave Halupowski, Dennis Hausch, Tom Haugh and Ken Leone all brought solar equipment.
 Dave explains how solar projection works. |
 All the solar equipment in-use. |
The original plan was to start inside with our standard presentation about the Sun and then the guest observers would adjourn to the field to view the Sun through the scopes. The weather forecast was for partly cloudy skies getting worse throughout the day. As we started setting up the skies were fairly clear,so we changed our plan and split the ‘guest observers’ into as many groups as we had scopes and started the observing. Eventually, one large cloud intervened and we took the opportunity to move the group inside and gave the solar presentation. Once that completed, we went back outside and by then there were plenty of holes in the clouds and everyone was able to finish the scope rotation.
 Ken takes a look at the Sun in H-Alpha light. |
 And a good time was had by all. |