25th August 2018
On the first day of second leg of the run for National Science Week 2018, we reached Nangiloc-Colignan & District Primary School on 19th August. School Principal Mr Ben Crum has been proactive in engaging the students into sky viewing and had arranged a bus trip from Nangiloc to Mildura on our last public outreach at Mildura in 2017. The kids were a bit disappointed for not seeing Sun through telescope due to overcast. So we made a promise to especially come to Nangiloc in future, so here we were. We had a limited viewing of Sun through PK's H-Alpha Solar telescope due to patches of clouds. The observatory was set up in the school's cricket ground, where we were met by ABC Mildura -Swan Hill team for a report (link below).
At sunset, the sky cleared up and we had good views of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon from Celestron C11 telescope inside observatory as well as PK's small ETX-90 outside. Roughly 50-70 people showed up, mostly kids and parents and enjoyed the sky viewing.
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