Comments and anecdotes about the event:
As soon as the sky got dark enough, I trained the scope [Alvan Clark] over to Vega and locked it down. After fine tuning the slow motion control, the scope held the target rock steady. As soon as the moon came out of the trees, we trained over and showed it for the rest of the evening. Our last guests left around 11:00 pm. On the Seestar, I showed M57, M16, M17, M27, M31 and M102. I tried to show M57 with the Clark, but it was hiding and I couldn’t see it. We had almost 40 people come through last evening. Matt