Comments and anecdotes about the event:
Despite initial confusion with the city's events coordination team, we had a great night and fantastic showing - even with smoke greatly limiting our observing option. Shawn and Jeff T. demoed the sun through solar telescopes for the first part of the evening, then joined Jeremy, David, Jonathan and Gabriel in showing the beautiful first quarter moon until it got dark enough to hunt out deep sky objects and the ever-popular Mars. Visitors from across the globe delighted in joining the bands and boardwalk performers (to include stiltwalkers) in observing through our scope's, while Jeff G. livestreamed from his Seestar to a projector, and showed off some previous astrophotography. We were thrilled to greet hundreds of beachgoers and tourists, including guests from France, Norway, and Kyrgyzstan!