Because I have been tied up with family health issues, I have not been able to open up HJRO much in the past month.
There are other key keepers in the Faac club, but they have been very busy with work and other normal things in day to day life.
Yesterday I tried to open up the observatory quickly in the afternoon for the middle school students. The biggest problem however was I had a lot of morning tasks to do at home and had to run some errands as well. So I was off to a late start in the morning. I also wanted to get another Faac member to arrive so two of us could run the observatory. That took a little bit of time. I found Harold was available and willing to interrupt his shrub cutting and yard cleanup tasks. So Harold and I met and I called one of the middle school science teachers to let him know we would be open at 1pm.
Unfortunately I called him to late and he and the other teacher were about to start their last class. Harold and I ended up looking at the sun and we showed one school employee the sun as well. I texted a few members of the astronomy club as well to let them know that observatory was open, in case any could stop by. Dan Barriball a faac member stopped by briefly as well to check out the sun.
Harold and I basically talked for a couple of hours enjoying the weather.
Today is Tuesday and the sky was pretty clear out. I had to many things to do and didn't have time to contact any Faac members and try to open up the observatory again. It's difficult to plan for weather restricted viewing ahead of time and tough to get people to volunteer at the last minute.
My other viewing at HJRO was Saturn about a week ago. I stopped by late at night on the way to Meijers and looked at Saturn for about 15 minutes. A nice break, but then I had errands to run. I took a snapshot of the planet with my iPhone but didn't have time to find all the adapters and get my canon EOS to take a better photo of the planet.
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