I had only one visitor last night but conditions were pretty poor in the sky

We had a nice chat and looked at Venus, Mars and Saturn. It was too overcast to look at other objects while we were out there.

The visitor was an original club member from the last middle school club before Huff Jr High was torn down. The last big event the old club had was an observation of a eclipse. That club met in 1982. The observatory was in use by students in the old days in 1982. He also confirmed that Mike Manyak from Wyandotte Michigan used the observatory and was in it well into the late 1980s. He also remembered Bruce Coultas our old 8th grade principle. It was a great talking to a fellow member of the old club, although I wasn't actively involved when that club was running the observatory.

I can remember talking to Mike Manyak who stopped by, and this was likely after the Jr High club had dissolved. He was still curator of the observatory officially, but many students were likely not involved at all. I also talked to other visitors this week, some went to the school system and knew about the observatory, at least as a building being there, but never looked through the observatory or had even a tour.


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