Oct. 1st in Texas was the National Night Out where neighbors were encouraged to go out and talk with one another. My neighborhood decided to have gathering on one of the streets and have a small BBQ.
I decided to take the opportunity to do “bicycle astronomy” the term coined by Doug Riley of http://bicycleastronomy.org/. The event started a little before Sundown so I started off with a tripod and a Coronado PST (solar telescope).
Once the sun was too low to view I decided to pedal on back to the house and put the 10″ dobsonian on the Yuba Mundo cargo bike and return to show Venus through the telescope. All in all I had about 20 people look through the telescope, not many but it was a good start. On the Yuba Mundo I was able to carry 2 folding chairs, a step stool, the 10″ dobsonian Optical Tube and the base, Eyepieces and a Tel-Rad.
The two objects targeted were Venus and the Sun.
