The UGM star party went exceptionally well, considering the cover.
They broke the kids up into seven groups. While most of the sky was socked,
Jupiter peaked through the clouds a bit. When it disappeared Venus came out.
When both of those were buried I focused on a tree lineon a distant horizon--so
that's all a couple of the groups got to see. Venus came back out, then
dropped below the horizon. I remember it being much higher in the sky on the
east coast. But right after that, Saturn rose above the clouds in the East,
and so the last couple of groups got to admire it.
All in all it was a pretty decent event, and of course the sky cleared
substantially as I loaded all the equipment back into the pickup.
Uhm, instead of guessing I asked, and there were 65 kids, 21 older kids, and
about 15 staff members. Roughly 100 altogether, if someone wants to enter this
into the Night Sky Network. If I get a chance later today I'll do it--I'm
supposed to have a log in but haven't used it yet.
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
