If the sky is clear, I will open up the observatory on the date shown. Mars has just reached opposition, tucked under Leo's paws and should be a good object to look for, but the full Moon will make it hard to see much more than the brightest few stars otherwise. For the interested, I'll go through the basics of setting up the portable Meade telescope so that you can hire it if you'd like to, and we'll put it through its paces on setting Jupiter/Venus.
Finally, we can try to catch a glimpse of comet Garradd with binoculars, and have a go at taking a picture of it with the Nikon camera.
mail me if you can make it!
