Our astronomy club took part in Astronomy Day at the Vanderbilt Planetarium all day today. We had people with Hydrogen alpha filters for observing the sun, and I had two home made telescopes on display (they are the telescopes in this photograph). I had a chance to talk with a lot of people who had questions about amateur astronomy, and about how I built my telescopes - I really love having conversations like that about this hobby of ours. Toward the end of the day, one of our members, Frank, at left in this photo, said that we could see Venus in daylight, so we started looking for it. Here, he and Mal have found the planet and were studying it through the eyepiece.
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