Good afternoon HAL,
We had a wonderful turnout, and we enjoyed gorgeous weather this Saturday, August 2nd, during the August public star party.
I counted 118 people visiting and 17 telescopes, mostly visual.
Dale did a fantastic job showing people the moon and the “Eagle Nebula” in the observatory, while Kristal and one of her students were taking care of the activity booth she set up, and engaging with visitors.
As for the visual observers, some were showing people open clusters, and others were also showing them the moon.
The transparency was not that good due to the smoke from the wildfires in Canada, so visual observers focused on bright objects.
As for imaging, there were 2 Seestar S50 and 2 other imaging telescopes.
David was able to capture some great images of the Supernova on NGC-7331 with his Seestar, doing 5-minute integrations. I also did a 5-minute integration of the same object. I also gathered more data for my ongoing project on NGC-6888. The last imaging setup captured the Pinwheel Galaxy for the first time.
We closed the park around 11:20 pm.

