[Jen]

Hi guys my night was a great success I'm one happy girl even if I got just one person hooked I would be happy but I think I got them all hooked hehe woohooo and I couldn't have done it without all the support and advice from all you lovely IIS members ( my little astro family )

After all this time I think I have kept underestimating myself with my knowledge of the night sky I was so worried that I would look stoopid and that I wouldn't be able to answer their questions but amazingly I passed with flying colors they asked me questions all night long and I could answer all of them man I was on fire I supprised myself I think

The night started off with patchy clouds with a little haze around so seeing wasn't 100% but as the night went on the clearer it got, watching the fine crescent moon set was breathtaking for all with a beautiful sunset to boot but unfortunately Due to stupid OH&S the work do was actually over @ 10pm grrrr so then off went the helmets and the safety boots and Jen was in total control I was in my prime time of the evening and away I went spinning johnny around all over the sky hehe (someone just try and stop me from doing what I love)hahaha they would have no chance lol lol
I managed to show them
Jupiter
Orion - and story time of Orion
Eta Carina nebula ( got lots of wows with this one )
47 tuc
Omega Centauri
Tarantula Nebula
Leo Triplets - ( lot and lots of wows seeing these three gems together)
The Sombrero Galaxy
The Ghost of Jupiter
Saturn
Sirius - they loved looking at it through the scope

And a demonstration on how to find true south using the stars the astronomy way and the boy scouts way hehehehe
And I think we all enjoyed playing around with the astronomy apps on my ipad - (Sky Safari) all through the night and playing with the laser pointer pizza & wine was great also, I had my camers set up and took over 100 pictures of the sky to make some star trails demonstrated to them on how to do this (will post when I go through them)
Most of the people left just after 12 but there was a few keen ones that stayed behind to have a scan around Scorpio and Sagittarius and Virgo
I finished up around 3:30am took an hour to pack up then had an early breakfast at hungry jacks then the clouds started to roll in phew good timing the sunrise looked pretty so I ran around to take a few pics and got to bed at 7:30am had to check out of motel @ 10am doh I forgot to organise late check out bugger the motel manager must have seen me come in so late/early he decided not to charge me for the room hahaha
All in all the boss and staff are already organising for me to do another event for them in the near future woooohooo
Thanks again to everyone in here for your friendly advice I love you all to bits muah xo