What did you do to your Class C MH today???

Handbasket wrote:
I took the Tiger all of seven miles from home to Tanbark Ridge Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway Friday night for an astronomy club stargaze. Since it was in the 30's, falling into the 20's, with a light wind blowing, it made a welcome warming room for a few of us, and I could fix hot chocolate & coffee. Had an excellent night of double stars, star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and Jupiter & its moons. I've got bigger telescopes, but my beat-up little Celestron C5 SCT lives in the Tiger.

Skies permitting, tonight I'll be driving the Tiger to an educational event that the club is doing for a local elementary school. The forecast is 'iffy' at present, tho'.

Jim, "I still miss Pluto."

That brings back some memories. About 15 years ago I was in a unique astronomy club, and I also did star outings with at school camp, and when my son was in scouting I also was the astronomy merit badge counselor. And it all started because a friend of mine at work had a C-5 telescope and heard me talking about thinking of building my own.
He said he'd rather let me use it and let it die in his garage. And boy did I use it. Many fond memories with that scope. You could set it up on the tripod and hike a mile in the dark, with no problem. I also took the scouts to three RTMC Science Expos up in the big bear mountains here in California. It's an annual event I recommend it highly. Astronomy clubs and astronomers of all levels meet there. RTMC stands for the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference. The turnout is about 2000 a weekend. Our club was called GAMA, the Golfing Astronomers Musicians Association. Our star parties were Star campouts for 2 to 3 days. I bet you had a great time up there did you catch Orion M42? A park ranger that Yosemite a glacier point calls at our neighborhood nebula. I took the C-5 up there with us and we did astronomy with the Ranger. Nobody else had brought a scope up there.
We had a good Saturn shot that night. I let all the visitors up there look through it after the Rangers talk. One lady looked through it and then asked me where do you put the slide. She didn't realize she was looking at Saturn live. What's the name of your Star club?:C