[Peyton-observing] October Public Observing

[Christian Kragh Jespersen]

Very well chosen quote! On top of the things listed by Rodrigo, we also got
some really nice views of Saturn.

Em qui., 20 de out. de 2022 às 00:45, Rodrigo Córdova Rosado <
rodrigoc at princeton.edu> escreveu:

> Hi all,
>
> With that we have our second public observing session in the books. Many
> thanks to Tansu, Christian, and Camryn for the amazing work running the
> telescope, explaining the lack of Lunar tectonic plates, and answering the
> never ending questions from our youngest visitors. We started out the night
> with pretty abismal looking clouds, I even posted on the website that we
> would close at 9:30 and would just be doing Ask an Astronomer. Fortunately,
> around 8:35 things started clearing up (and I adjusted the website to
> reflect it) and we had pretty great conditions there on out. We had a
> turnout of over 50 undergrads, parents and children, and several grad
> students. We tried the method of keeping folks in the Auditorium and cycled
> them up to the telescope to good effect, and were able to catch good views
> of Jupiter, Mars, the Pleiades, and M31!
>
> I managed to collect a good number of emails to get out public facing
> email list started. I also managed to advertise on a couple of undergrad
> list serves and the grad student government Slack. We can certainly get the
> event on the main Grad School announcements with a bit more run up.
>
> Next observing date is set for October 30th for our Halloween special
> (we’re still looking for suggestions on what to do!) with Sam taking the
> lead with Mitchell, Shaunak, Eden, and Charlotte.
>
> Ad astra per aspera*,
> Rodrigo
>
> *To the stars through perseverance (/hardship), as we use to say in my
> undergrad astro club
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Christian Kragh Jespersen (He/Him/His)
Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
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