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Astronomy Merit Badge

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SAS Only

Type: Outreach

Keywords: Outreach Star Party

Held on: Jan 25, 2014 (Sat) at 11:33 AM to Jan 26, 2014 (Sun) at 01:33 PM

Location: 47.680880, -122.341411

Event Coordinator: David W. Ingram

Overview

Hello!

We a trying to get our Scouts excited about science. So, we are working on the Astronomy Merit Badge. We are camping at Tolt-McDonald County Park January 25th. We were wondering if we could have an astronomy expert come out and teach us. We have two nice scopes and a few binoculars. If you could make it, that would be wonderful. Thank you!

This event was COMPLETED as scheduled with approximately 20 11-14 year old male scouts and 5 fathers participating.
SAS members participating included D. Ingram and Doug Hoople.  Weather was good, but proximity to local river contributed to humidity/dew.  Seeing was steady and sky was clear. 

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Latitude 47.68136, Longitude -122.3408605

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