Astronomy evening

Last night's star gazing organised by the locally based Orion Observers Group at the Taal Monument in Paarl went down very well. There were over 327 visitors!! Our 12 inch Dobsonian telescope was beaten by a 14 inch Schmidt-Cassegrain! There were long queues of interested people who saw Mars, Orion with its great Nebula, the Large and Small Magellanic clouds with the Tarantula Nebula and globular cluster, Tucanae 47 and many other wonderful sky objects.