The Henderson Beach star gaze started clear and hot with four solar telescopes at work. Several small sunspot groups were visible along with several small prominences along one quarter of the solar limb with a large looping prominence visible on the opposite limb.
Since the solar system’s arrangement had not changed very much since last month’s Topsail Hill event there were still no solar system objects visible other than a one-and-a-half-day old Moon. It presented as a very thin sliver of silver that was barely naked-eye visible until the sky started to darken.
1.51 day old Moon.
Several bright stars and star clusters rounded out the target list for the evening. Attendance was down from our normal Henderson Beach crowd; we blamed that on the heat of the day. It was hot.
The club was well represented:
- Renee & George Gollehon
- Tom Haugh
- Marietta & Dennis Hausch
- James Martin
- Scott Morgan