Esparza Elementary School – Tuesday, November 16:

The school event on Tuesday, November 16 was perfection. The weather is
clear and the viewing was steady. Despite a few misdirected lights in
the distance that area we sat up at was relatively dark for an urban
school. The children and the parents that viewed through my scope were
really well behaved and polite. Many had detailed questions about the
object I was showing with my telescope. I brought my scope named “Big
Red” and showed NGC457 the Owl Cluster a.k.a “E.T.” ; “Wall-E”
to the crowd of 175 or so. SAAA members present were: Don B., Bill B.,
Jay M., Danielle R., John and Amy E. and I. The school fed us Subway
Sandwiches.

Outreach Videos: #5

Getting Started in Astronomical Outreach- Questiongs

Video #2

Getting Started in Astronomical Outreach

Some encouragement of you to go out to and teach someone with that new telescope you got for Christmas. If you are interesting in volunteering contact your local astronomical group to see what events are coming up.

First Successful Week of outreach events

This is the first week since the time change and the weather was nice. I got to do many out reach events and this past week I've have about 650 people look in my 10" Telescope! 650! and it is only week 1!!

Monday - Took 10" Dobsonian a.k.a "Big Red" to Westfalls branch library - 75 people looked through it.


Wednesday - John Glenn Elementary School- took Big Red (10" Dobsonian telescope) to a school about 200 people looked through it.



Thursday - Sun Valley Elementary School- Took Big Red (10" Dobsonian telescope) to school about about 230 people looked through it.



Friday- Scobee Planetarium at San Antonio College. I set up my 10" for about 3 hours and let the public view through it. I'd estimate about 150 people.

Old Video To Kick off Outreach 2009

Well, this month kick's off the "Out-reach" season of 2009 for the San Antonio Astronomical Association so I dug up this old video I made last year. Enjoy!