Once again we were invited to support the Saturday in the Park Heritage Festival in Valparaiso. While other members supported Walton County’s Earth Day Festival, Dennis & Marietta Hausch and Dave Halupowski supported their home town event providing telescopic views of the Sun to their guest observers. This year they braved the requirement to have everything set up and vehicles out of the way by 7 AM. This, of course, led to a very long day, but an enjoyable one.
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 Dave demonstrating solar projection. |
 Dennis’ dual mounted scopes. |
The skies were clear, but the Sun, nearing solar minimum, was very quiet. Dave set up his classic Unitron refractor to provide an image of the Sun by the projection method. Dennis, on the other hand, dual mounted his solar telescopes and was able to show both white light and Hydrogen-Alpha views of the Sun using one mount.
We want to thank Marietta Hausch for her photos of the event.