Hello Doug
I belong to ASSA Astronomical Society of South Africa.
Every second Saturday of the Month we go to the SAAO in a place called Observatory Cape Town. The observatory is open to the public on these evenings. The Maclean refractor is open for the public to observe and the members of ASSA bring their scope and set up outside on the lawn. We end up with loads of kids and adults all lining up for a skwint at varios DSO's.
At a privately owned observatory in the Cedarberg ( a really dark sky site) there is a public presentation and viewing session with all sorts of scopes every saturday night.
I went to Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens a few weeks ago with 10 other ASSA members to give a view of the night sky to a convention of 600 visiting international gynaecologists.
Having said all that , I agree lets pass it on
Regards
Steve
