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100 Hours of Astronomy Event - Tauranga Roving Observer Group TROG
100 Hours of Astronomy Event
Number of telescopes and binoculars:
5
Number of amateur participants:
7
Number of public observing (best estimate):
160
Public comments/impressions:
Very excited to get a look at the moon and saturn through the telescopes. Some people went away and came back again with other people. Most brought children. Some wanted advice on their own scopes.
Viewing conditions:
Good, until the temperature dropped and people were lighting fires in their homes. We couldn't observe much after 9pm on all nights.
Objects viewed:
Saturn, moon, SMC, LMC/Tarantula, jewel box, sombrero galaxy, M42/43, M44, omega cenraurii
Types of telescopes used:
10"dob, 6"dob, 8" dob, 8"schmidt-cassegrain, 100mm sunscope
Names of club participants:
Les Smith, Andrew Walker, Noel Peterson, Jim Barrowclough, Stuart Murray, Shaun Belcher, Ursula Macfarlane
Organizer Comments:
Advertised in local paper and posted flyers to supermarkets, libraries, work, etc. but didn't get as many people as anticipated. On the thrid night one of our members brought a laptop and had people interested in the Starry Night program - the rest of us were looking at the real sky through real telescopes!
Method used to estimate public attendance:
Counting ! We weren't exactly inundated !
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100 Hours of Astronomy Event - Tauranga Roving Observer Group TROG
