In a message dated 3/9/03 9:00:23 AM Eastern Standard Time,
2bookworms@... writes:
<< How was the "seeing" through the scopes? Those of you who were
there...I'm curious to know how it went for you.
Rick Bish
>>
The seeing ranged from terrible to pretty decent on a minute to minute basis.
Most of what we observed was viewed through a thin haze of high thin cirrus.
A help actually with the moon ... natural filtration. Saturn was its usual
spectacular self, and we had a shadow transit across Jupiter. The GRS made a
brief appearance at the start of the event but soon rotated out of view.
The kids were great. They seemed interested, well behaved and enthusiastic.
I think a few of them had their first view through a telescope (some of the
adults too). The one snafu was the premature report that all the scouts had
cycled through the observing. A few minutes after most of us had packed up,
a final group came out. But George saved the day, er, night ... he had two
scopes still up and viewing. Larry Meyer was still set up too, so the kids
got to see a little. The clouds closed in about that time anyway.
The spot wasn't exactly dark, but it worked OK. Dale brought a cart that was
a big help in moving scopes and equipment through the building, and as you
mentioned, for once I was happy to be on pavement.
Ted
