Thank you for coming!

It was a bit cloudy, but at least it wasn't too cold! We got to see a few things on our target list, including Venus, which showed as a perfect half-moon shape, Jupiter and some fine cloud belts and Mars, with a brilliant white polar cap showing clearly against the orange desert soils of that cold, arid world.

In the photograph below, you can see the Cooke telescope pointing at Venus through the observatory hatch, captured in a one second long exposure.

The full Moon put in a showing, with this view as it rose on the eastern horizon.