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Bethel Horizons Star Party Bethel Horizons Star Party was held for the Iowa County Astronomers club and the public was invited. We had approximately 50 people at the peak including a large group of teenagers. Very nice evening under the dark skies of SW Wisconsin.
Dates: Friday, 4/20/2012 - Saturday, 4/21/2012
Time: 7:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Bethel Horizons, 4651 County Road ZZ, Dodgeville, WI 53533 (Get Directions)

Sunset: 7:50 PM

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Address: 4651 County Road ZZ
Dodgeville, WI 53533
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Event Log
Name of Primary Presenter/Organizer: John Wunderlin
Event Type: Star Party(Astronomy night): School/Public/Other group
Number of club members participating as presenters: 1
Toolkit Used: Other NSN Resources (Telecons, Astronomy Resources Download, etc)	Topic Covered: Telescopes
Total number of visitors: 40
Comments and anecdotes about the event: This was our club's first star party and we limited our advertising to SW Wisconsin only. It was a very nice, if dewey night. A large group of teenagers were at Bethel for a confirmation outing and they joined us for a while looking through the scopes.