Sunday evening was the beginning of another beautiful night, so I went back to the boardwalk at about 8:30. Lots of people and families enjoyed seeing Jupiter and four moons. I gave out a lot of ISAN stickers to the kids and copies of the one-page "what we are looking at tonight" writeups.
No parking at the beach tonight, way too crowded, so I decided to head down on my bike. I put the scope in a backpack (inside its padded case), AT Voyager tripod across the handlebars and Rubbermaid two-step stool over my shoulder. Easy as pie, in 10 minutes I was on station and ready to go. As I passed one family, a lady shouted "Mike, there's that Astronomy guy we were bringing you to see! I was hoping he'd be here again!" How much fun is that?
Scope was the WO Zenithstar ED II with a Burgess binoviewer with 2 20mm Binolight EPs, plus corrector giving 10mm EP focal length. This gave about 56X, which was plenty to see moons and the two main equatorial cloud belts on Jupiter.
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