Outreach: Owosso Community Airport

Thanks go out to Jim Forrester, Jeff Kopmanis, Brian Ottum, and Gary Nichols for joining me to do this event.

The sky was partly cloudy while we were setting up. We then ate together. The food was actually a full meal and very tasty.

We finished and walked back over to our scopes to discover the sky completely cloudy. What!? But we waited it out and pretty soon we could view the Moon through passing clouds, and eventually the sky cleared completely, allowing views of Saturn and a few DSO’s.

It was a cool right after sunset, and we all put on jackets. We enjoyed the venue despite the urban setting because we had a great surface to set up on and the horizons were very good, especially to the south, east and west.

I am guessing the event had around 50 participants, about half of which care to our area and spend time with us. They were impressed to blown away by what we showed them. 

We also got to see a brief lighting of the runway and saw a plane land and come over by us to refuel. I was rather surprised overall that it was not a nuisance light-wise, and it was amazingly quite for a plane.
The operator of the airport was with us the whole time and thoroughly enjoyed it. He cooperated fully on lighting too.

It was a friendly bunch of people, and we enjoyed their company. This event was no doubt a success!

Clear skies,
Charlie Nielson