Comments and anecdotes about the event:
This is our 20th event at the Fall River State Park. On Friday night we had some great observing seeking out comets, nebulae, planetary nebula, star clusters, and galaxies, along with a sighting of Saturn, with the rings nearly edge on. What was fun, non club members join us with their telescopes along with other guests. Then on Saturday for the public event, our presenter gave a presentation using the software Stellarium and demonstrated its use through a projection setup. After the presentation we followed up with more observing, although through some clouds. It turned out to be a great event with several club members and guests. We did talk about the pending T-CrB (Blaze Star) that may be visible at anytime. Some 1.25" eyepieces were given away to anyone who wanted them, plus a few 1.25" lunar filters. They came from the Orion StarBlast and Zhumell telescopes being placed at libraries around Kansas since the eyepieces are being replaced with a Zoom eyepiece in its place.