Jan 222018
Our last star gaze of the year at Eden Gardens State Park was somewhat cloudy but we had a great turnout for scopes and guest observers. We were able to just catch the day old Moons’ barely visible crescent before it set behind Eden Gardens ancient tree line. We were also able to pick out Saturn as the sky started to darken. It also set behind the trees fairly early. After that we shifted to the deep sky objects we could pick out between the clouds.
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NWFAA members as they set up their scopes: (L->R) Robert Sutphen & friend, Tom Haugh, Dean Covey, and Dennis Hausch. To the far right is a young guest observer and his parent who accepted our standard invitation to bring personal equipment to the star gaze. He brought out a very nice 60mm refractor. |
| The day old Moon before it set. It is much easier to see here than it was finding it in the telescope. The contrast between the Moon and the sky was just at the limit of visiblity in the scopes. |
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Additional telescopes were brought by James Dubbin (hiding behind the 16″ Dobsonian all the way on the left) and Mike M. (prospective new member just to the right of the Dob). Ken Sharp also brought his scope but by then it was apparent we had good scope to observer ratio and he spent the evening moving from group to group providing color commentary. |
We want to thank, once again, Marietta Hausch for her photos of the event.