Last night saw our second star party evening at the Cheltenham Science Festival. Another really good turnout of people, and some difficult questions to answer !
Although early in the evening the weather looked promising, it actually turned out worse than the previous night. We were able to see the Moon through the cloud, but that was about it.
Much thanks to those that turned out this evening - Kevin Taylor (& Pauline) with 12" Dob, Peter Burgess with ETX, Tony Ireland with 5" Mak, Rob Davis (not sure what he had!), Steve Darnell - SGL member, with 16" Dob. And Rod Salisbury & Derek Maskell.
In the day I went to a couple of the lectures - one on Rutherford, which was very interesting, and on entitled Copernicus, but was really about the impact of arabic astronomy on western astronomy leading up the Copernicus. So not really not much about Copernicus himself. However, it was not a bad talk and Jim Al-Kalili (not sure thats spelt right) is always entertaining.
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