Nov 162018
The skies were totally clear for the 2018 Walton County Explore the Outdoors Festival. However, with the Sun still heading toward minimum there was no activity to show. That doesn’t mean we didn’t try. Dean Covey and Tom Haugh both brought scopes capable of safely viewing the Sun. Dean set up his H-Alpha scope and Tom started off with a white light configuration. After a while though he slewed the scope off the Sun, removed the filter and slewed even further to view a thin crescent Venus.
Lots of club star gaze schedules and past astronomy magazines were handed out. We also gave out sky maps showing the path across the sky that the ISS would be taking that same evening.
We had a great time and look forward to next year’s event.