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The night kicked off about 6pm when the first visitors arrived. At that time there were three scopes set up a C8 loaned by Mental4Astro, Tantalus and an 8" dob. As the sky darkened more visitors arrived and we moved from the moon to Orion, Crux, the Jewel Box and later on Saturn. We were then joined by GeoffW1 and Mental4Astro and another two scopes. The visitors kept on arriving. A few clouds rolled in obscuring our targets but eventually they all went away. WCen and 47Tuc were popular and Saturn got the obligatory "Wow!". The final visitors made their way out around 9pm and the astronomers stayed on until just after 11:30pm by that time we'd seen Eta Carina through an number of different eyepieces and filters, M4, M83, NGC3918 and a host of double stars via GeoffW1's goto scope.
Thanks to GeoffW1 and Mental4Atsro for providing scopes and comentary to the visitors. We had so much fun that we intend on doing it again some time in the future. Watch this space.
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