The last Friday of the month – astro club. We
got there early to set up, as threats of imminent baby was worrying the usual
set-up stalwart. As always we weren’t sure how many chairs to put out. We set
up for sixty five people, and ended up with standing room only.
The main talk of the evening was Stevey
lecturing on extra-solar planets. A brilliant talk – really good. There was an
interesting question after the talk in which one of the punters seemed not to believe
in the principle of friction. I really don’t know how you should proceed when
you explain a patently obvious scientific principle, only to be told “Well, I don’t believe it!”
And then those of us with vested interests
exploited our positions to extol the virtues of paintings and literature.
I hawked the raffle as always, and for once I
actually won the constellation game myself. That tenner will come in handy.
Meanwhile Steve hawked the recently obtained club clothing. We’ve got a range
of T-shirts, hats and fleeces. We sold over three hundred quid’s worth this
evening.
And then we did some stargazing. For all that
I have a very good telescope (that wasn’t
cheap), I rarely stargaze. Tonight was great – we looked at Jupiter and the
Pleiades and Andromeda and all sorts of things. I even managed to get a photo
of Jupiter and its moons with my camera.
Regular readers of this drivel might recall
blog entries from four years ago when I was very sceptical about how the
fledgling astro club was doing. In retrospect it would seem that I had nothing
to worry about: the club’s turned out all right….
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