August 26th Star Party

The Age of Aquinas group, a ministry for singles aged 40 and up, enjoyed another Star Party on Saturday evening, August 26, 2006.

• Our primary telescope, "Deety" 
  
  
• Powerful binoculars held steady on a tripod 
  
  
• There was food galore!
  
  
• Enjoying it were: Jan, Celeste, & Mary
  
  
• ...and Francis, Carrie, Carol & Beth
  
  
• Wait a minute!!  Where'd all the brownies go???
  
  
• Hmmm... Larry & Karen... do they have a "cat ate the canary" look?
  
  These next pictures represent a few of the objects we observed through the telescope.  I got these pictures off the web, but they are close to what we saw... among other things!!
  
  
• Jupiter and his 4 major satellites
  
  
• M13, globular star cluster in the constellation Hercules
  
  
• Albireo, the blue and gold "UC Berkeley Star"