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Originally Posted by seeker372011
PS In a talk at our club, Fred Watson reminded us in the lead up to 2009 to not expect too much excitement in the general community...he asked if for example anyone knew that 2008 was the Year of the Potato  |
We had a great year up in Townsville. We planned many public nights, and the weather stayed great for us.
The public nights that we had down on The Strand were amazing - we prob had at least 10 down there, plus another 6 at a darker site (Pallaranda). The ones on The Strand were hugely popular with many, many, many 1000s peering through our scopes in wonder. For a large number, it was their introduction to astronomy. We had a ball.
Some of the club members were still down there in late November, when weather deteriorates a bit up here.
We will definitley be including public nights for 2010.
