Joshua Prudhomme points out the International Space Station to his mother, Leanna Prudhomme during the eighth Star Gazing Festival. The event was held at Trophy Mountain Buffalo Ranch on Thursday, Aug. 7.
Left: Bill Burnyeat helps a youngster look at the the craters of the moon through a large Dobson reflector telescope. The rings of Saturn were clearly visible through another telescope.
Right: Cheryl Thomas (l) chats with Joana Salvisberg, a visitor from Switzerland, as they take part in the Star Gazing
Festival. Most of those attending appeared to be local, but there were quite a few out-of-town participants as well.
Below: Bill Burnyeat of the H.R. MacMillan Planetarium addresses a crowd of close to 90 people during the eighth Star Gazing Festival. A lander from the Rosetta mission will land on a comet soon, he said. However, gravity will be so weak that the lander will weigh as much as a piece of paper. It will need to use spiky feet to hold on.
