Programs at the Deep South Star Gaze - 2021

We do need additional programs for the DSSG.

As of yesterday Len Philpot, DSSG Co-Director and administrator of this message board, informed me that he will not be able to attend this year due to a schedule conflict. Len was scheduled to do a presentation "Comet Catcher - Re-Do" and now that will not be happening.

As I said we can use additional programs. I am thinking that what works well are programs explaining to others what you might do to enhance your observing experience be it things like -

1) Keeping an Observing Journal, or

2) Improving a feature of your telescope, or your observing chair, or of your vehicle or trailer, all the sort of things to improve your time observing, or

3) One can do a program on a trip you took that had an astronomy theme, be it attendance at another star party, or a private trip where astronomy was a major part of your trip, or

4) One can do a program with images. I do have an LCD projector and computer. You can bring your laptop or just bring a thumb drive and we can make it work, or

5) One can talk about a major building project or maybe a component specific talk on a variety of topics such as eyepieces, binoculars, etc., etc.

Think about it, the possibilities are endless. We all attend star parties to learn.

Let me know, what some of you can do.

Barry