Street corner attraction. From here, visitors were routed to the relatively darker tree-lined area (centre left, off-image) where the other 'scopes were set up. (20090403)
Behind a row of oak trees the main phalanx of telescopes were arrayed. (20090403)
Moon gazing through Martin Lyons' Meade. Martin is in the centre with the blue and white shirt. (20090403)
Rudie Loots animatedly explaining an astronomical detail to two foreign visitors. (20090403)
(left) Dieter Willasch with his 10-inch Meade on a Takahashi mount. (right) Ed Foster with Lorenzo, with Lynnette on stand-by. (20090403)
Car guards turned lunar security (20090403)
Raw lunar image taken with my cell phone, held up to the 25mm eyepiece of Maphefo, an 8-inch Dobsonian. No image processing at all. Wow. (20090403)