received the library crowd (Blue Mountains)

Tony, once again, delivered his astronomy talk at the Thornbury library and then brought his charge to the CAO.

He gave them a brief tour of the grounds, sliced them into two groups, and then let them loose.

Dietmar and I flew the Paramount ME in the GBO. We offered eyeball viewing through the C14. I had strapped up the MallinCam to the TV101 with the flatscreen monitor. We showed Messier 13 (M13), Messier 57 (M57), Messier 27 (M27), and Messier 16 (M16).

There were lots of good questions. Planning ahead (for a change) I had prepared some notes with details of the selected objects, including their distances.

Later in the evening, members and guests started counting Perseids out on the lawn.

It was a fun night.

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Had to play with some of the MallinCam settings quickly and on-the-fly. It will be good to get some documentation settled down...

Remote control will be awesome, if possible.