During this year’s (2007’s) Starfest, we were very fortunate to have gotten clear skies for two nights, and part of a third night, during our stay at The River Place.

The only rain was a few minutes of sprinkles Thursday morning.

IMHO, I’m not a huge fan of tenting, but the spectacular clear skies on the Wednesday and Friday nights, and excellent cameraderie amongst fellow astronomers and fellow club members, not to mention a gazillion Perseid meteors, including a few bright bolides, made the camping part of it well worth it.

Here are more images from Starfest that I took from two of the clear nights. I will post larger versions of these and other images soon:

The Lagoon Nebula (M8) in Sagittarius, from the Wednesday night (August 8, 2007):

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31), as well as its two dwarf-elliptical companions M110 (above) and M32 (below), from the Friday night (August 10, 2007):

When it was all over, on Sunday Morning, it was time to pack it in. Some of us, including a fellow HAA colleague whose tent here says it all, had our work cut out for us, taking everything down and packing it away.

But we all managed to get packed before an approaching cold front from the west brought in rain Sunday afternoon (…what timing!).

Ad Astra!

Bob C.