23rd August 2019
We conducted public outreach astronomy in the grounds of Loxton High School. Padraic Koen conducted day time solar astronomy through his Lunt 60mm H-Alpha telescope and amazed the public with the views of solar prominences streaming on the tablet screen. Seeing was very good. The activity was mainly attended by school students and few families.
Public was treated with views of Saturn, Jupiter, Omega Centauri and few other star clusters through our Celestron C-11 telescope on Skywatcher EQ8 mount inside the observatory. Nearly 50 people attended the day time solar astronomy session and nearly 40 attended the night time viewing. We are thankful to Sue Schultz of Loxton Council and Shannon Tootell of Loxton High School for facilitating the activity and helping to make it possible.
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