It was a very quiet night a few years ago at the Grand Canyon Star Party. It's a fantastic week of outreach with public visitors and 50-80 amateur astronomers showing off sky candy. Set up is either in the main parking area for Yavapai Observing Station, or down in a lower area called The Pit. In The Pit, you can leave your scope set up for the whole week, but the visitor traffic is, at best, 10% of the flow in the upper lot.
So there we were, about a dozen of us astronomers in the Pit with maybe 30 visitors ambling through and sampling the views. Very quiet. I've got my 18" on The Ring. I help a 7 year old up the ladder to view. Still dead silence. Suddenly this little guy shouts out "Holy S***, Mom, it's a g** d*** Cheerio."
After 15 years of outreaches, that one really sticks with me!
-------------------- Jim
A Bad Night With A Telescope
Beats A Good Night Doing Anything Else
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