Sorry I couldn't be there, but after three straight all-night sessions of trying to do astrophotography I was just too beat. -- Joe --- On Sun, 8/15/10, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Great night! To: "utah astronomy utah astronomy listserve" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Sunday, August 15, 2010, 3:04 AM Wow!  Tonight had to be the best SPOC star party in a very long time. Excellent weather, the seeing was good, lots of scopes and grundles of public. We were so busy and the lines so long we didn't really start closing up until just past midnight (the Ealing closed early when the focuser developed a problem). Kelly Ricks and I ran the refractor and found Mercury right after sunset.  That was followed by Saturn, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and finally Uranus.  First time I've seen all the planets in one session in years.  Fun. And for those who wanted to see Pluto, the Grim was pointed in it's direction.  Dave Bernson was pretty sure Pluto was in the field of view but it was hard to say just which tiny dot it was. Much fun!  And many thanks to the MANY (there really were a lot) of SLASers who were there and helped out.  I'm sure the public appreciated the effort. I guess it went so well we're now going to have to pay in the form of a few weeks of clouds...  :) patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com