Video pullback of moon at restaurant parking lot

Late last night I was at Buffalo Wild Wings.

I ended up taking out my telescope and showed about a dozen customers Abd a few staff members the moon.

Here's a short video of the moon as my iPhone video tapes it for a few seconds. I pull the camera off the eyepiece and you can see the moon up by the street light in the parking lot.

The moon looks pretty good most telescopes as it's our closest neighbor in space.

It looks a lot better with your eyes looking through my telescope than this video shows.

We will be open tonight at the observatory, but from 8 to 10pm there will be a meeting at the observatory with members of the observatory special interest group. We always welcome visitors, and if you happen by we should be able to show you a view through one of the telescopes on site.

We might be doing some experiments with equipment configurations, our computer equipment and possible cameras on the telescope. But we try to take time to show visitors sone objects through the big telescope. We will likely have smaller telescopes outside of the observatory as well which can give good views as well and it's often nice to look at a few objects or through smaller telescopes and then work your way up looking through different telescopes and then end with a view of one or more objects through our large 14 inch c14 at the observatory. That is usually a fun way to visit an observatory and we should have at least two telescopes setup outside for visitors.

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