Re: Rosamond Report

If I ever had 100 people show up I'd be awefull surprized. That would also
kill the FF owner ;}

I think that the most I've ever had at one time was maybe 10 to 15 people at
one time.


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"Richard Adams" <ackthpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Starlord wrote:
>> Cold in the Night
>>
>> 5:30pm corner of B St & Rosamond Blvd, the Galactica
>> was set up and aimed at Mars. I had hopes of a good
>> night, at that time no winds, but the cold was already
>> starting to set in.
>>
>> During the next 3 hours I had a few people stop by,
>> one lady with a car full of boys came over before going
>> into FF and they got to see Mars.
>>
>> One car pulled up by the pay phones and a man got out
>> and the wife headed towards the market while he came over
>> and got to see Mars, Saturn and informed about how the
>> telescope worked. Later on a guy came over to check it
>> out and got to see Mars, Saturn, the Dog Star and we
>> had a good 20 min talk touching on many things astro
>> in small bits.
>>
>> During this time the winds had started, which cut down
>> on people getting out of their cars. The last ones to stop
>> where 3 mid to late teens, these 3 I would have seen their
>> likes down in Hollywood not out here, and they got to see
>> Saturn, then they basicly made offers to get just about any
>> unlawfull drug I wanted (YUK) and when they saw my donation
>> cup with some change in it one of them asked if he could
>> have it and he'd bring back a 1/2 full bottle of wine in a
>> paper bag! Told him that change was going into my cars
>> gas tank, and I pulled out the sci-fi book I was reading
>> and told them that was my dug of choice.
>>
>> By this time, 8:30, the winds where up to 20mph, and I was
>> starting to feel the cold in my feet, that's time to come
>> home for the night.
>>
>> So passed another night on the corner.
>>
>>
>
> Having has a limited viewing on Saturday night up in Bonny Doon, thanks to
> a heavy dew, I piled my ETX and kit into the truck and went to downtown
> Santa Cruz for some sidewalk stargazing. Over about 4 hours, showed
> people Orion's Nebula (what could be seen of it) and Saturn. Someone
> actually wanted to look at Betelgeuse to confirm to themselves it was
> indeed a red giant. Not much else of note was visible with all the light
> pollution, but did get about 100 viewers, which helped the time pass.
>
> I do this 2-3 times a year, usually when I have the next day off, unlike
> tonight.


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