Robert Frost Middle School
Star party for Robert Frost Middle School

Date: Wednesday, 5/23/2012

Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Location: Robert Frost Middle School, 2314 Bradford Place, Granada Hills, CA 91334 (Get Directions)

Event Log

Name of Primary Presenter/Organizer: Van Webster

Event Type: Star party for club members

Number of club members participating as presenters: 5

Toolkit Used:
   Other NSN Resources (Telecons, Astronomy Resources Download, etc)

Topics Covered:
   Milky Way Galaxy
   Moon
   Solar System
   Sun
   Telescopes
   Universe

Total number of visitors: 50

What materials were handed out?
Unknown

Comments and anecdotes about the event:
We had 5 LAAS members with scopes, 2 dobs, 2 SC and one Mak. About 50 people attended including parents and teachers. Views of the Moon, Venue, Mars, Saturn and Mizar/Alcor were offered. Herb had his interpretive bulletin board up for people to look at. The people were nice and appreciative. The seeing was dreadful. Everything seemed a blur. The rings of Saturn were hard to separate from the orb of the planet. Wound up around 9:30 PM. Van Webster ----------- The outreach event at Robert Frost Middle School on Wednesday was a great success. We had at least 5 LAAS astronomers (DeGregori, Drouet, Webster, myself and a new member who lives nearby and whose name I didn't catch -- my apologies). The sky was clear although the seeing was mediocre. We viewed the moon, Venus, Saturn, Mars and some other objects including M3, Algieba, Mizar, Cor Caroli and a double star shown by our new member which I think was 100 Herculis. An interesting coincidence: The 3-day old moon was a thin crescent, while Venus showed us a similar thin crescent but with a slightly different orientation. Herb Kraus