Successful night. Not as many people as last month (I think the movie was less popular), but we were still kept pretty busy all night.
Three pictures of people looking through telescopes and one I took through an eyepiece looking at the moon. Pretty lousy shot, but at least you get some idea of what you can see through a telescope.
Back in Pamela Park on Friday, August 20. Probably around 7:30pm - 9pm. Saturn, Mars and Venus will all be setting pretty early (and we may need to do some dodging to get around those trees). Jupiter is probably still rising too late for us to see. The moon will probably be our main attraction for later in the evening.
SkyHiker fits for both my hiking and my astronomy interests. www.myown100hikes.blogspot.com is my hiking blog. Most of my blog posts were hiking in southern California, especially the first year. Then I took a temporary job in Fall 2011 that let me do a whole bunch of hiking in and around Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, in southwestern Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee. Then I started taking more road trips in recent years, which especially included trips to southern Utah and southern Nevada, while also finding less time for hiking locally, unfortunately.
Of course, this year, with "social distancing," and "mandatory" and "strongly urge" restrictions on travel, it's been even harder to find places I felt it was safe to hike.
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