A fellow ASH member, her husband, and I spent Saturday morning and early afternoon at Wildwood Park representing the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg at the Celebrate Wildwood event.
Wildwood Park is a wetlands area north of the city of Harrisburg.
https://explorewildw...brate-wildwood/
https://www.dauphinc.../parks/wildwood
I brought the club's vintage 105mm f/4.2 Edmund Scientific Astroscan telescope, a white light solar filter, and Seestar S50 smart telescope. Roxanne had her Coronado H-alpha solar telescope.
Unfortunately, the skies never cleared so we weren't able to conduct any solar observing.
However, visitors showed quite a bit of interest in our display table and the astrophotographs and astronomy handouts that I brought along. A number of people took the handouts on public observing that I printed out and some of them took membership applications.
I trained the Astroscan on a number of nearby objects including a flagpole so that kids could have a look through a telescope.
After the event ended, I walked the Delta Trail and spent some time looking at the exhibits in the Olewine Nature Center.
(This is my 119,000th Cloudy Nights post.)
