Michael Carnes wrote:
I haven't been out to SPOC yet, but I was thinking about Friday night. Since I have some plans for Saturday, I'll probably wuss out halfway through the night.
No worries, that's what most people do. Personally, while I'll probably look at a few M objects I'm mostly interested in Saturn and Jupiter through the refractor with the bino viewer installed. When we did that with Mars last year there was a great 3D illusion. Is the layout at SPOC such that I can leave without
my headlights ticking everyone off? One option would be to park and set up in the parking lot.
The other would be to park in the parking lot and lug your scope down by the observatory. Or if you get there before it gets dark you can park such that you can leave with minimal impact on others. Patrick