It has been nine years since our last event at West Memorial Elementary in Katy. They must have lost our contact information but thanks to our award winning website they found us again. Two of our volunteers, Mac Hooton and Bill Spizzirri, attended that event 9 years ago.
The event coordinator, Jennifer Lightsey, did a great job organizing the event and had several teachers stationed to help us out. The event started at 6:30pm and at 6:15pm we were wondering if anyone was going to show up and then by 6:40pm the gymnasium that Bill Spizzirri was presenting in was full with about 125 students and parents. Bill wowed the crowd with his Meteors and Meteorites presentation.
After Bill’s presentation the crowd moved outside where we had a variety of telescopes setup and even Jennifer’s husband had his 8 inch SCT setup. It was a true star party with students and parents putting picnic blankets on the ground that they sat on while not looking through the scopes. We wrapped up at about 8:20pm.
With telescopes we had the following volunteers and the main objects shown were a thin crescent Moon and Saturn.
- Sean Carey – Dwarf Mini Smartscope & Galileo Scope
- Joe Dellinger – AstroPhysics Traveller 4 inch Refractor
- Mac & Robin Hooton – SeeStar Smartscope
- Matt & Owen Linnell – 127mm Maksutov
- Matt Poteau – Classic 8 inch SCT
- Harish and Samvith Radhakrishnan – 8 inch Dob & SeeStar Smartscope
- John Spencer – Home Built Very Awesome Newtonian
