Astronomy on the Hill 2011
Well the sixth annual Astronomy on the Hill is in the books or should I say the pail. Pails may have been more appropriate than telescopes this year. At least you could then collect the rain water. Saturday night was a cancelled as Mother Nature was not going to cooperate. We did however set up Sunday in the portable at the museum and some people showed up to view exhibits, telescopes and discuss astronomy with club members.
Rick got checked out on running the inflatable planetarium although the wind made the task very difficult. Thanks to Rick’s qualified instructor, mister planetarium himself John Crossen they put on one show.
Phil had his camera set up on the Astro Trac, Boyd and I had our 114mm telescopes on display. Brett had a large number of Mallincam videos and other videos to delight the audience.
Trish and Nicholas ran the draws/door prizes where a number of passes to the BHO, binoculars donated by Mark and an autographed copy of Night Watch was given out. The winner of the binoculars was 7 year old Mark Brever of Peterborough.
Mark helped with teaching five kids how to build a cardboard sundial and stardial. The Star Dial uses the position of the Big Dipper in relation to Polaris to determine time.
Dean and John
Cameron were on hand to help out as well.
We had somewhere between 15 and 20 people attend the event.
A big thanks to the members that participated.
Rodger Forsyth
