Public Star Party @ TXMOST, September 23rd, 2016

For about the past four months I've been helping host Friday night star parties at the Texas Museum of Science and Technology (www.txmost.org), weather permitting. They've become quite popular, with as many as 100 people showing up over the summer. We had a relatively slow night this time, so I was able to capture a few photos.

With the smaller crowd, we were able to see quite a number of objects, including Venus, Saturn, Mars, the Hercules Cluster (M13), the Swan Nebula (M17), the Lagoon Nebula (M8) & open cluster, the Ring Nebula (M57), and the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) & M110.