Comments and anecdotes about the event:
Vance Tyree and Dave Nakamoto operated the 8" refractor, displayed the objects on the flat TV's screen. Dave reported: "We managed to image 10 objects! I've not seen many of them before. In the order they were found, they were NGCs 1883, 2281, 2419, 1647, 1807 & 1817, 2264, the Cone Nebula, M41, NGC 2354, and 2362. All are open star clusters except for 2419, a globular cluster 269,000 light-years distant, known as the Intergalactic Wanderer. That's it in the 1st image, that very faint glob of light to the left of those two stars. Nearly twice as far as the Magellanic clouds, and a tenth of the distance to the Andromeda galaxy! 160 seconds of exposure time.