{"id":2427,"date":"2012-02-12T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2012-02-12T09:50:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T14:50:24","slug":"kaon-feb-11-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/kaon-feb-11-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"KAON Feb 11, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network<\/a> (KAON) held an open house\/public observing session last night at the Queen’s University Ellis Hall Observatory.<\/p>\n

It’s always a good night when you are on your way home with a glow … We had fun last night and that is what keeps us coming back month after month.
\nAt the KAON session there were approx 60 people at the lecture (07:35-08:30) and another 10 up on the deck for a grand total of 70 folks.
\nOut on the deck were two grad students, and nathalie up in the dome.
\nSusan Kim and Hank had other scopes out and I did a lot of Walmart style greeting at the deck entrance along with Paul and Rose-Marie who stuck around to chat people up. It was cold! but not cold?
\n-13 or -15 but little wind for a change and once you acclimatized it was not bad at all.<\/p>\n

We had the fitzgerald out, the 20cm mainstay telescope. Last night was a three planet night. Venus low in the west, Jupiter high overhead, and Mars was up high enough to clear the fence by 20:30pm. Had we thought to look a little earlier, we would have caught Uranus as well, now about 2 degrees away from Venus (already! remember it was only 20 minutes away on Thursday night).
\nWe passed out a lot of the new RASC moon gazer guides as well as other moon related material that we have generated in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON) held an open house\/public observing session last night at the Queen’s University Ellis Hall Observatory. It’s always a good night when you are on your way home with a glow … We had fun last night and that is what keeps us coming back month after month. At the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}