[Peyton-observing] public observing last night (january 29)

[Jegunn]

Hi, Emmanuel.

Would you tell Susan about the step? We could fix it, but the
University is supposed to.

Glad it went well.

thanks

--jim



On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Emmanuel Schaan wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> This is just to say that the observing last night went very well. We had a
> lot of people come, including a group of boy scouts, which was fun. Alex and
> Chris came to help, which was great. We saw Jupiter and Uranus, the Orion
> nebula, the usual star clusters, Andromeda, and there are diverging opinions
> on whether or not we saw the supernova in M82 :).
> 
> Both the east and west buttons on the telescope worked perfectly (thanks to
> the cold temperature?), but the plastic cover of one of the steps leading to
> the telescope entirely detached when I walked down the stairs, before the
> start of the observing. It seems to be easily fixable though, and I am happy
> to help with this.
> 
> Cheers,
> Manu and Johnny
> 
>