Comments and anecdotes about the event:
Science Night 2024--Our first one since 2019. We had six volunteers and five main stations. There was the always popular kid's craft table (planet masks, planispheres, stickers, pinwheels). We also gave away 8x10 photos of various deep-sky objects taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (courtesy of the NSN). There was a gravity well to show how mass curves space and how planets orbit the sun. We had the NSN scale model of the solar system to show how size of the planets compared to the one-meter sun. The magnetic sun display was well attended as visitors wanted to know why the sun was so active and why we were having auroras in Humboldt County. Lastly, we had a telescope set up in the courtyard and our presenter went over the optics of how telescopes work. Later in the evening, visitors could see the rising full moon through the telescope. We had about 250 visitors. We had fun presenting and meeting the community.