We had a really nice impromptu last night!  It was not cold and the sky was entirely clear and nicely transparent.  We had about 20 HAL members show up even though it was the Monday night after the time change. Victor and Jose gave our observatory a check-out run after the winter hiatus and everything is now ready to go for our first public star party of 2026, which will be on Saturday March 28.

There were five(!) Seestar S50 smart scopes running (as I could see on my wifi menu as I connected to mine).  I took a picture of the Crab Nebula from 8:25 PM to 10:25 PM which netted me 80 minutes of usable data.  Jose was kind enough to volunteer to stay late and lock up so I left about 10:30 PM

David Stein