The skies cooperated with our support for the 2017 Walton County Explore the Outdoors Festival. Unfortunately, the Sun did not.
 Dean shows a young observer the hydrogen-alpha Sun. |
 Guest observers view the Sun through Dennis and Dean’s scopes. |
With solar activity heading toward periodic minimum, there were no sunspots visible through Dennis Hausch’s white light filtered Maksutov, nor were there any filaments or prominences visible through Dean Covey’s hydrogen-alpha telescope. Tom Haugh’s spectroscope was the only instrument not hampered by the Sun’s inactivity.
 Dennis now has Venus visible in his scope. |
 Several observers view the solar spectrum. |
In fact, since there was nothing visible on the Sun, Dennis re-pointed his scope, removed the filter and provided a view of Venus in broad daylight. We passed out quite a few club handouts, annual schedules and the last of Tom’s 2017 calendars. Once again we want to thank Marietta Hausch for providing the event photos.