Field Trip: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11

Last night we had a picnic with the astronomy club to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing.  We listened to some older club members talk about were they were during the landing and how they felt.  Many of them are space buffs and went on to tell about how much more we learned from the later lunar landings and told funny stories about how they were connected with the space program. Then we went to our local observatory where a bunch of folks had gathered on the lawn with their telescopes to share the view.  We saw Saturn and its rings, Jupiter and three of its principle moons, and Antares. 

Sorry the pics are pretty bad -- so dark, but you get the idea. Here is S looking through a telescope:

  Big sister A looking at Jupiter: