I can Imagine that Ken
Some of the people there even took some convincing that what they had seen was in fact a Meteor
I had the little Astroscan there & most of the people (in their 40's & older) had never looked through a scope in their life !
The moon just amazed them, with comments like "thats just what it looks like from space".
I think I even have a visiting Doctor from Pt Lincon in S.A, sold on buying a 12" GS Dob (he already has a woobly-a-tronic scope)