We had a nice group at Hidden Bluffs on Friday night and showed them Mars, Saturn, some double stars and the Moon. Lots of laser pointing going on too, showing the folks constellations and had a good number of satellites going overhead, plus a few faint meteors.
Steve, Barb and I had one really unusual satellite go overhead about 10:47 p.m. That would fade into nothing and then brighten noticably. It reached mag. 1 towards the end, but most of the time peak brightness would be mag. 2. Pretty cool. The best question of the night, by far, was, "Has anyone made it out of the Galaxy?"
There are no dumb questions in astronomy, but some of them just have to make you smile.
Did anyone make it out to Gamehaven?