Astronomy & The Jungle

Star gazing weekend! Last night was the H.M.S. Beagle star party. Tonight is the Platte County Parks star party in Weston Bend State Park. Alex went with Leif and me last night and will again tonight! Busy family of astronomers! Tonight, with the party starting at 7pm, we'll be doing some solar viewing through my 10 inch Dob telescope. Can't wait! I'm going to try to get my iPhone scope mount working and hopefully will be posting pics tonight of the Sun, Saturn, and other objects. Wish me luck getting it to work! Then, tomorrow, we'll be tackling the backyard. That's where wishing us luck will really come in handy. We have trees we've waited way too long to bring down and it's a jungle back there. Pretty jungle but still a jungle. I'm surprised we haven't seen a monkey yet (we've seen every other kind of wildlife back there, so why not?)