Hi Friends, [If you already saw the announcement on the UVAA list, sorry for the repeat.] The order of topics in the science curriculum has changed in the Alpine district so they're hoping a few of us can set up for a star party at Lakeridge (corner of 400 W & 700 S in Orem) on Friday October 23rd (1st Qtr moon) with Saturday 24th as a bad-weather-on-Friday fall back. The timing is a lot better for the bright planets than May would have been. Because of the COVID situation, they won't be inviting the kids to bring other family members so it should be a smaller group. So if you're up for it, let me know. I've suggested that they schedule things so that all the kids aren't arriving all at once. We're asked to wear masks and keep reasonable distance as much as possible--so we may need to be more spread out than we were last year. We'll plan on setting up along the track east of the school. The sprinklers will be off and supposedly the external lights--since they've never yet figured out how to turn off the outside lights, I don't know that this will happen, but since the most likely targets are the moon and bright planets, I trust that won't be a big deal. Let me know if you'd be interested in helping and I'll be sure to send out notice if by chance we're calling it off because of cloudy skies or whatever. Thanks much! John Craig