Dear Debbie, Amy, and Gene,
Kudos for helping to bring about a spectacular Spokane night under the
stars for us, the members of the Health Physics Society (HPS) last evening.
Debbie, thank you for getting so many of your Spokane Astronomical Society
(SAS) with their telescopes to come to this event, including you.
Amy, thank you too for arranging for the necessary clearances for us to use
the very-conveniently-located King Cole Pedestrian Bridge for the
starviewing.
Gene, thank you for finding that location for us. It was perfect! And also
thanks for putting the star party flyer in the goodie bags, too.
And wow! We loved the extra-bonus big and fast meteorite that produced a
long green trailing arc overhead during the star party. Thanks to you all
for arranging that. :-)
You all were great!
With much appreciation and gratitude,
Steve Frey, Past President of the Accelerator Section of the Health Physics
Society
Phone: (570) 567-7443
The event and turnout exceeded predictions. At one point, I counted nearly
a hundred people there
In a message dated 7/20/2016 10:44:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
cave8@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Wow, we had a wonderful turnout last night in Riverfront Park. Saturn,
Mars, and Jupiter were the highlight until the moon
peeked over the top of the convention center. There was about 50
convention goers, give or take a few. Plus
a few people just passing by stopped to look through the telescopes. I
would even go as far and say we had about 65 people.
The vibration you get from walking on the wooden bridge was the downside.
I was able to locate the Ring Nebula. Which was a miracle in itself
because the Moon was full. it was really washed out.
just before we left I put the telescope on Mizar and Alcor for the last
few people.
I didn't get pictures. But for being in the middle of Downtown Spokane it
was pretty amazing.
We started wrapping it up about 10:30.
A big Thank You to the Accelerator Unit of the Health Physic Society for
contacting us to help make their
experience in Spokane memorable. Some people had never looked through a
telescope before and they were like
kids looking for the first time, the noises were ooooh and ahhhh's and
wow. It was great. Thank you to
Paul Yost, Phyllis Eide and Dale Isley for coming out and helping with
this event.
Debbie Cotten
Outreach, Event Coordinator of
The Spokane Astronomical Society
cave8@xxxxxxxxxxx
509-991-2518
